Corydoras arcuatus

Corydoras arcuatus is a species of freshwater fish in the armored catfish family Callichthyidae.[1] It is restricted to the western Amazon basin, where only known from small blackwater or clearwater streams in the middle Juruá River basin, the Javari River basin and streams near Leticia in western Brazil, far northeastern Peru and far southeastern Colombia.[2]

Corydoras arcuatus
Corydoras granti (similar to and often confused with C. arcuatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Callichthyidae
Genus: Corydoras
Species:
C. arcuatus
Binomial name
Corydoras arcuatus
Elwin, 1938

The separation of C. arcuatus and C. granti was only fully clarified in 2019; information published for "C. arcuatus" before this was almost invariably for C. granti.[2] Similarly, the common name skunk corydoras has often been used for C. arcuatus,[1] but the vast majority of skunk corydoras in the aquarium trade are actually C. granti (leading several authorities to transfer the common name skunk corydoras to C. granti).[2][3][4] The two species are very similar and locally they occur together, with both being restricted to the western Amazon basin, but C. granti is more widespread.[2][3][4] In addition to these two, a few other Corydoras species (for example, C. bethanae, C. narcissus and C. urucu) from the western Amazon basin have similar color patterns, as does Brachyrhamdia thayeria; they all have spiny fins with a (to humans) painful but not dangerous venom and their similarity is an example of Müllerian mimicry.[2][5][6]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Corydoras arcuatus" in FishBase. June 2023 version.
  2. Tencatt, L.F.C.; Lima, F.C.T.; Britto, M.R. (2019). "Deconstructing an octogenarian misconception reveals the true Corydoras arcuatus Elwin 1938 (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) and a new Corydoras species from the Amazon basin". J. of Fish Biology. 95 (2): 453–471. doi:10.1111/jfb.13980.
  3. "Corydoras (lineage 9) granti". PlanetCatfish. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  4. "Corydoras granti Tencatt, Lima & Britto 2019". ScotCat. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  5. Slobodian, V.; Bockmann, F.A. (2013). "A new Brachyrhamdia (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from Rio Japurá basin, Brazil, with comments on its phylogenetic affinities, biogeography and mimicry in the genus". Zootaxa. 3717 (1): 001–022. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3717.1.1.
  6. Alexandrou, M.A.; et al. (2011). "Competition and phylogeny determine community structure in Müllerian co-mimics". Nature. 469: 84–88. doi:10.1038/nature09660.
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