''Rineloricaria jurupari'' is a

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in the family Loricariidae. It is native to

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

, where it occurs in the upper Vaupés River, which is part of the

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basin, 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 9.45 cm (3.7 inches) in

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. It was described in 2018 by Alejandro Londoño-Burbano (of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Alexander Urbano-Bonilla (of the Pontifical Xavierian University) on the basis of its distinctive morphology and coloration.Londoño-Burbano, Alejandro & Urbano-Bonillla, Alexander. (2018). A new species of Rineloricaria (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the upper Vaupés River, Amazon River basin, Colombia. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 28. 10.23788/IEF-1071.

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Loricariini Catfish of South America Freshwater fish of Colombia Fish described in 2018 {{Loricariinae-stub