Corydoras adolfoi – Adolfo's Cory — Seriously Fish | 水產百科網

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Corydoras: from the Ancient Greek κόρυς (korus), meaning ‘helmet’, and δορά (dora), meaning ‘skin, hide of an animal’, in allusion to the rows of bony plates on the flanks of genus members.

adolfoi: named for legendary fish collector Adolfo Schwartz, who first made this species available to aquarists.

Order: Siluriformes Family: Callichthyidae[1][2]

Type locality is given as ‘Small tributary of the upper Rio Negro on the equator near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil’, and this species is apparently highly endemic there.

Some sources state that it also occurs in the rio Uaupés (known as ‘Vaupés’ in Colombia), a major tributary of the Negro, but we’ve been unable to obtain official confirmation thus far.

Inhabits pristine blackwater tributaries and ...