River
Yuruari
2 profiles across 2 families name the Yuruari as a locality.
- Species
- 2
- Families
- 2
- Photographed
- 2 of 2
- Difficulty rated
- 2 of 2
Basin
Also in the Cuyuni basinspecies recorded from both
Shares fishes with rivers elsewherespecies recorded from both
Runs through
Colomesus asellusAmazon Puffer
Tetraodontidae · Müller & Troschel, 1849
This species is also referred to as 'South American puffer', 'SAP', 'Amazonian puffer', 'Peruvian puffer', or 'Brazilian puffer' in the ornamental trade. Within the genus Colomesus, C. asellus can be immediately identified by possessing a unique transverse row of dermal flaps across the chin which is absent in its congeners C. psittacus and C. tocantinensis.
Corydoras bondiBlackstripe Cory
Callichthyidae · Gosline, 1940
Type locality is 'Río Yuruari, 3 kilometers east of El Callao, 7°18'N, 61°50'W, Bolivar, Venezuela', and this species is also known from the Rupununi River drianage in Guyana and the Courantyne/Corantijn system in Suriname. The Yuruari, an affluent of the Río Cuyuni, an...