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Corydoras virginiae

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Species of fish

Corydoras virginiae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Callichthyidae
Genus: Corydoras
Species: C. virginiae
Binomial name
Corydoras virginiae
W. E. Burgess, 1993

Corydoras virginiae, the Miguelito cory, is a species of armored catfish from the family Callichthyidae, found commonly in Peru.

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Virginia Schwartz, the wife of aquarium-fish exporter Adolfo Schwartz who collected the type specimen.


References

  1. "Corydoras virginiae summary page". FishBase. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  2. "Procamallanus Spirocamallanus pintoi Kohn and Fernandes 1988 Nematoda Camallanidae infecting species of Callichthyidae from the Peruvian Amazon" (PDF). www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CALLICHTHYIDAE, SCOLOPLACIDAE and ASTROBLEPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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Corydoras virginiae

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