''Trichomycterus aguarague'' is a species of
pencil catfish
Trichomycteridae is a family of catfishes commonly known as pencil catfishes or parasitic catfishes. This family includes the candiru fish (''Vandellia cirrhosa''), feared by some people for its alleged habit of entering into the urethra of hum ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Bolivia
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, where it occurs in the
Paraná river system in
Aguaragüe National Park.
This species reaches a maximum length of
SL.
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aguarague
Fish described in 2006
Catfish of South America
Fish of Bolivia
Endemic fauna of Bolivia
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