''Denticetopsis sauli'' is a species of

whale catfish The Cetopsidae are a small family of catfishes (order Siluriformes), commonly called the whale catfishes. Taxonomy This family contains five genera divided into two subfamilies, Cetopsinae and Helogeneinae. Helogeneinae was previously a family-l ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in ...

, where it is only known from the Pamoni River in the

Casiquiare River The Casiquiare river () is a distributary of the upper Orinoco flowing southward into the Rio Negro, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems. It is the world's largest ...

basin of the upper Rio Negro system. This species grows to a length of 2.1 cm (0.8 inches).

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* * Vari, R.P. and C.J. Ferraris Jr., 2003. Cetopsidae (Whale catfishes). p. 257-260. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 36486) Cetopsidae Catfish of South America Endemic fauna of Venezuela Fish of Venezuela Fish described in 1996 {{siluriformes-stub