Corydoras habrosus – Salt and Pepper 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.

habrosus: from the Ancient Greek ἁβρός (habrós), meaning ‘graceful, delicate’.

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

Native to the upper Río Orinoco basin in eastern Colombia and western Venezuela, where it appears to be restricted to left bank tributaries.

The majority of records derive from the Río Apure watershed in southwestern Venezuela, where C. habrosus has been collected in the states of Portuguesa, Cojedes, Barinas, Guárico, and Apure. Its distribution in Colombia is less clear but it is known with certainty from the Río Arauca and Río Casanare, the latter a...