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| Ariporo River | |
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 Bird's-eye view of the Ariporo River | |
  Location of mouth | |
| Location | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Department | Casanare |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Length | 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) |
The Ariporo River is a river in the eastern Casanare Department of Colombia. It is part of the Orinoco River basin.
The Ariporo River is inhabited by the Malacoglanis gelatinosus, a species of catfish. [1]
The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km (1,330 mi).
A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial studies, geology, geography, ecology, and biology. Not all dark rivers are blackwater in that technical sense. Some rivers in temperate regions, which drain or flow through areas of dark black loam, are simply black due to the color of the soil; these rivers are black mud rivers. There are also black mud estuaries.
The Cetopsidae are a small family of catfishes, commonly called the whale catfishes.
The Aspredinidae are a small South American family of catfishes also known as the banjo catfishes, with about 43 species.
Panaque nigrolineatus, the royal panaque, royal plec, or royal pleco, is an herbivorous freshwater armored catfish native to Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela where it occurs in the Orinoco and Amazon basins. It is known for being one of the few fish that digest wood. They are arable to survive for a long period of time only on a wood-only, xylophagous diet. It grows to a length of 43.0 centimetres (16.9 in) and is a popular aquarium fish.
Farlowella is a genus of fish in the family Loricariidae native to South America. This genus is broadly distributed in Amazon, Orinoco, Paraná and coastal rivers of the Guyana Shield. It is absent from the Pacific slope of the Andes and from the coastal rivers of the Brazilian Shield. Many of these species are kept in aquariums. This genus has a unique body shape that resembles a thin stick of wood. The body is slender and elongate, often with a pronounced rostrum and a brownish color with two lateral dark stripes beginning at the tip of the rostrum, passing over the eyes and ending at the tail, which are periodically interrupted on the caudal peduncle.
Malacoglanis gelatinosus is a species of catfish of the family Trichomycteridae, and the only species of the genus Malacoglanis. This fish grows to about 2.0 centimetres (.79 in) SL. and is native to the Caquetá River basin of Colombia. Stauroglanis is the sister group to a monophyletic group formed by Malacoglanis and Sarcoglanis.
Schultzichthys is a genus of pencil catfishes native to South America.
The Sarcoglanidinae are a subfamily of catfishes of the family Trichomycteridae. It includes six genera: Ammoglanis, Malacoglanis, Microcambeva, Sarcoglanis, Stauroglanis, and Stenolicmus.
The Caura, is a tributary of the Orinoco River, located in Bolívar State in Venezuela. Its flow is the second after the Caroni River among the affluents of the Orinoco River, with almost 3,544 cubic metres per second (125,200 cu ft/s). The river is inhabited by both the Ye'kuana and Sanema indigenous groups.
Hypoptopoma spectabile is a species of armoured catfish native to the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. This species grows to a length of 2.9 centimetres (1.1 in) SL.
Leporacanthicus triactis is a species of armored catfish native to Colombia and Venezuela, where it is found in the upper Orinoco River basin. This species grows to a length of 24.7 centimetres (9.7 in) SL.
Chaetostoma, also known as the bristlemouth catfish, is a genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America with one species, C. fischeri, extending into Panama. Most species inhabit flowing rivers in the lower Andes and its foothills. Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.
Manacacías River is a river of Colombia. It is part of the Orinoco River basin.
Upía River, a river in Colombia originating at Lake Tota, is a tributary of the Meta River flowing into the Orinoco River basin.
The Inírida is a river in the north-west of South America, in the territory of Colombia, the largest tributary of the Guaviare.
Atabapo River is a river of Venezuela and Colombia. It forms the international boundary between the two countries for much of its length. It is part of the Orinoco River basin.
The Orinoco Basin is the part of South America drained by the Orinoco river and its tributaries. The Orinoco watershed covers an area of about 990000 km2, making it the third largest in South America, covering most of Venezuela and eastern part of Colombia.
Leiarius pictus, commonly as sailfin pim, painted catfish or saddle catfish, is a species of demersal catfish of the family Pimelodidae that is native to Amazon, Essequibo, and Orinoco River basins of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil.
Farlowella mitoupibo is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the upper Guaviare River, which is part of the Orinoco basin in Colombia. The species reaches at least 20.96 cm in standard length. It was described in 2016 by Gustavo A. Ballen, Alexander Urbano-Bonilla, and Jhon Zamudio. Its specific name, mitoupibo, is derived from the Guahibo name for the species. FishBase does not yet list this species.
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