Tamaya

The elegant cory, Gastrodermus elegans, long known as Corydoras elegans, is an armoured catfish from the western Amazon basin in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. Unlike most congeners it spends a fair amount of time away from the substrate, often forming groups in midwater. It gives its name to the unofficial 'C. elegans group' of similar species, which includes G. nanus and G. undulatus plus many C- and CW-numbered fishes of uncertain status.