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Lithogenes wahari Schaefer & Provenzano, 2008

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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Comments: Type locality, Amazonas, Caño Päwä, approximately 30 minutes by foot upstream from its mouth into Río Cuao, approximately 30 minutes by boat downstream from Puerto Nuevo, MBUCV-V-33738 (holotype of Lithogenes wahari, 5.72 cm SL, female). Known only from the middle section of the Río Cuao, a clear-water tributary of the Río Sipapo of the Orinoco River basin of southwestern Venezuela (Ref. 83588).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Schaefer, S.A. and F. Provenzano, 2008
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Common names from other countries

Wahari kaljusäga, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Lithogeninae
Etymology: Lithogenes: Greek, lithos = stone + Greek, gene = birth, race (Ref. 45335);  wahari: Name from the Piaroa name Rúa-Wahari, the god of the creation according to the Piaroa peoples; noun in apposition..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic.   Tropical

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