''Aposturisoma myriodon'' is a species of armored catfish. It is the only species in the genus ''Aposturisoma''. The

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name derives from

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''apo-'' meaning "outside",

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''sturio'' meaning "sturgeon" and Greek ''soma'' meaning "body"; the whole referring to its outwardly similar appearance to a

sturgeon Sturgeon (from Old English ultimately from Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European *''str̥(Hx)yón''-) is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the ...

. ''Aposturisoma myriodon'' is native to

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, the Aguaytia River basin in the Upper Amazon River drainage. This species is only known from its type location. This species is

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, preferring to live in shallow, fast waters with a rubble substrate. These fish may reach a length of SL. They appear rather similar to the closely related ''

Farlowella ''Farlowella'' is a genus of fish in the family Loricariidae native to South America. This genus is broadly distributed in Amazon, Orinoco, Paraná and coastal rivers of the Guyana Shield. It is absent from the Pacific slope of the Andes and fr ...

'', though they have a larger mouth, deeper and wider body, and thicker

caudal peduncle Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the back bone and are supported only ...

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from Planetcatfish.com Harttiini Freshwater fish of Peru Fish of the Amazon basin Monotypic freshwater fish genera Catfish genera Taxa named by Isaäc J. H. Isbrücker Taxa named by Heraldo Antonio Britski Taxa named by Han Nijssen Taxa named by Hernán Ortega Fish described in 1983 {{Loricariinae-stub