Farlowella Yarigui
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''Farlowella'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Loricariidae native to South America. This genus is broadly range (biology), distributed in Amazon basin, Amazon, Orinoco River, Orinoco, Paraná River, Paraná and coastal rivers of the Guyana Shield. It is absent from the Pacific slope of the Andes and from the coastal rivers of the Brazilian Highlands, Brazilian Shield.Covain, R. & Fisch-Muller, S. (2007)
The genera of the Neotropical armored catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): a practical key and synopsis.
''Zootaxa, 1462: 1–40.''
Many of these species are kept in aquariums. This genus has a unique body shape that resembles a thin stick of wood. The Fish anatomy#Body, body is slender and elongate, often with a pronounced rostrum (anatomy), rostrum and a brownish color with two lateral dark stripes beginning at the tip of the rostrum, passing over the eyes and ending at the tail, which are periodically interrupted on the caudal peduncle.


Taxonomy

The genus is placed within the tribe (biology), tribe Harttiini of the subfamily Loricariinae. Morphology (biology), Morphological, Molecular biology, molecular and Phylogenetics, phylogenetic studies have placed ''Farlowella'' as cladistics, sister to ''Sturisoma''. The genus name of ''Farlowella'' is named in honor of William Gilson Farlow, a famous United States, American botanist of Harvard University whose main work was working with algae plants, the favorite food of this slender catfish.


Species

There are currently 30 recognized species in this genus: * ''Farlowella acus'' (Rudolf Kner, Kner, 1853) * ''Farlowella altocorpus'' Michael Eugene Retzer, Retzer, 2006 * ''Farlowella amazonum'' (Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, Günther, 1864) * ''Farlowella colombiensis'' Michael Eugene Retzer, Retzer & Lawrence M. Page, Page, 1997 * ''Farlowella curtirostra'' George Sprague Myers, G. S. Myers, 1942 * ''Farlowella gianetii'' Gustavo Adolfo Ballen Chaporro, Ballen, Murilo Nogueira de Lima Pastana, Pastana & Luiz Antônio Wanderley Peixoto, L. A. W. Peixoto, 2016 Ballen, G.A., Pastana, M.N.L. & Peixoto, L.A.W. (2016)
A new species of ''Farlowella'' (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) of the ''F. nattereri'' species-group from the rio Xingu basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with comments on ''Farlowella jauruensis'', a poorly-known species from the upper rio Paraguai basin.
''Neotropical Ichthyology, 14 (3): e160046.''
* ''Farlowella gracilis'' Charles Tate Regan, Regan, 1904 * ''Farlowella hahni'' Herman Meinken, Meinken, 1937 * ''Farlowella hasemani'' Carl H. Eigenmann, C. H. Eigenmann & Lola Ella Vance, Vance, 1917 * ''Farlowella henriquei'' Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro, A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1918 * ''Farlowella isbruckeri'' Michael Eugene Retzer, Retzer & Lawrence M. Page, Page, 1997 * ''Farlowella jauruensis'' Carl H. Eigenmann, C. H. Eigenmann & Lola Ella Vance, Vance, 1917 * ''Farlowella knerii'' (Franz Steindachner, Steindachner, 1882) * ''Farlowella mariaelenae'' Felipe J. Martín Salazar, Martín Salazar, 1964 * ''Farlowella martini'' Augustín Fernández-Yépez, Fernández-Yépez, 1972 * ''Farlowella mitoupibo'' Gustavo Adolfo Ballen Chaporro, Ballen, Alexander Urbano-Bonilla, Urbano-Bonilla & Jhon Edison Zamudio López, Zamudio, 2016 Ballen, G.A., Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Zamudio, J.E. (2016)
''Farlowella mitoupibo'', a new species of stick catfish from the upper Guaviare River, Orinoco basin, Colombia (Teleostei: Loricariidae).
''Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (4): 325–332.''
* ''Farlowella nattereri'' Franz Steindachner, Steindachner, 1910 * ''Farlowella odontotumulus'' Michael Eugene Retzer, Retzer & Lawrence M. Page, Page, 1997 * ''Farlowella oxyrryncha'' (Rudolf Kner, Kner, 1853) * ''Farlowella paraguayensis'' Michael Eugene Retzer, Retzer & Lawrence M. Page, Page, 1997 * ''Farlowella platorynchus'' Retzer & Page, 1997 * ''Farlowella reticulata'' Marinus Boeseman, Boeseman, 1971 * ''Farlowella rugosa'' Marinus Boeseman, Boeseman, 1971 * ''Farlowella schreitmuelleri'' Christoph Gustav Ernst Ahl, C. G. E. Ahl, 1937 * ''Farlowella smithi'' Henry Weed Fowler, Fowler, 1913 * ''Farlowella taphorni'' Michael Eugene Retzer, Retzer & Lawrence M. Page, Page, 1997 * ''Farlowella venezuelensis'' Felipe J. Martín Salazar, Martín Salazar, 1964 * ''Farlowella vittata'' George Sprague Myers, G. S. Myers, 1942 * ''Farlowella wuyjugu'' Dopazo, Wosiacki & Britto, 2023 * ''Farlowella yarigui'' Gustavo Adolfo Ballen Chaporro, Ballen & José Iván Mojica Corzo, Mojica, 2014 Ballen, G.A. & Mojica, J.I. (2014)
A new trans-Andean Stick Catfish of the genus ''Farlowella'' Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with the first record of the genus for the río Magdalena Basin in Colombia.
''Zootaxa, 3765 (2): 134–142.''


References

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