''Peckoltia lineola'' is a
species of
catfish in the family
Loricariidae. It is native to
South America, where it occurs in the basins of the
Ventuari River in
Venezuela and the
Inírida River
The Inírida (, Spanish: Río Inírida) is a river in the north-west of South America, in the territory of Colombia, the largest tributary of the Guaviare (the Orinoco River basin).
The length of the river is , of which are navigable for small ...
in
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
. The species reaches 9.7 cm (3.8 inches) SL and is typically found in rocky
riffles. Its specific epithet, ''lineola'', derives from a
Latin word meaning "line", referring to the lines present on the species' compound pterotic.
''P. lineola'' appears in the aquarium trade, where it is most frequently referred to either as the shortlined pleco, as the Orinoco dwarf pleco, or by one of three associated
L-numbers, which are L-202, LDA-057, and LDA-079.
References
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Fish described in 2008
Ancistrini