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    The following is a list of fishes present in the Colombian Magdalena River. Abramites eques Acestrocephalus anomalus Aequidens pulcher Ancistrus caucanus...
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    Leporinus muyscorum (category Magdalena River)
    species of freshwater fish in the genus Leporinus. It is endemic to Colombia, where it occurs in the Magdalena River Basin and Atrato River. The species...
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  • Cynodonichthys elegans (category Magdalena River)
    in Colombia. List of fishes in the Magdalena River List of data deficient fishes Villa-Navarro, F. (2016). "Cynodonichthys elegans". IUCN Red List of...
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  • species are listed as least concern. The IUCN also lists 37 fish subspecies as least concern. Of the subpopulations of fishes evaluated by the IUCN, 44 species...
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  • species, 4.2% are listed as endangered. The IUCN also lists ten fish subspecies as endangered. Of the subpopulations of fishes evaluated by the IUCN, 24 species...
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  • Thumbnail for Potamotrygon magdalenae
    the Magdalena River stingray, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Potamotrygonidae. It is found only in the Magdalena and Atrato basins in Colombia...
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    roaming the area for food in the nearby Magdalena River. In early 2014, there were reported to be 40 hippopotamuses in Puerto Triunfo, Antioquia. The estimated...
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    Astroblepus homodon (category Magdalena River)
    of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found in Colombia. Astroblepus homodon is endemic to Colombia, where it is found in the Magdalena-Cauca...
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    Turquoise cichlid (category Magdalena River)
    the Chocó region, the northwest (including Atrato River) and locally near San Rafael (where possibly introduced; this region is part of the Magdalena...
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  • Astroblepus nicefori (category Magdalena River)
    a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found of the Cauca River and the Magdalena River in Colombia. Named in honor of Brother Hermano...
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    Whiptail catfish (category Magdalena River)
    species of armored catfish endemic to Colombia where it is found in the Magdalena River basin and is suspected to also occur in the Catatumbo River. This...
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  • The following is the full list of the extant species in Class Chondrichthyes, or the cartilaginous fish. Members of this class have a backbone, gills...
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    Arapaima (category Fish of the Amazon basin)
    Chernoff (1992). "A Miocene fossil of the Amazonian fish Arapaima (Teleostei, Arapaimidae) from the Magdalena River region of Colombia--Biogeographic and evolutionary...
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    Ichthyoelephas (category Fish of South America)
    in the Santiago and Guayas river basins in Ecuador, and I. longirostris reaches a length of 80 cm (2.6 ft) and is found in the Cauca–Magdalena river basin...
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    Iridescent shark (category Fish of the Mekong Basin)
    alarm amongst the scientific community and government officials, as the Magdalena river is home to over 200 native fish species, 35 of which are endangered...
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    Astyanax caucanus (category Fish of Colombia)
    lives in sympatry with various other fish species in the Cauca and Magdalena river basins. It is not known to share a habitat with any other species of Astyanax...
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    River stingrays or freshwater stingrays are Neotropical freshwater fishes of the family Potamotrygonidae in the order Myliobatiformes, one of the four...
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    Blue-eyed plec (category Magdalena River)
    The blue-eyed plec (Panaque cochliodon) is a herbivorous freshwater armored catfish endemic to Colombia where it occurs in the Cauca and Magdalena River...
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  • Callichthys fabricioi (category Magdalena River)
    is found in the trans-Andean upper Cauca River in the Magdalena River basin of Colombia. Although described in 1999, two other cogener fish have since...
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    California halibut (category Fish of the Gulf of California)
    waters of the Pacific Coast of North America from the Quillayute River in Washington to Magdalena Bay in Baja California. It feeds near shore and is free...
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    Pseudoplatystoma (category Paraná River)
    a tributary of the Orinoco River. P. magdaleniatum is named for and endemic to the Magdalena River drainage, including the Cauca River of Colombia. P...
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    Aspredinidae (redirect from Banjo fish)
    throughout the major tropical rivers of South America (e.g., Magdalena, Orinoco, Amazon, São Francisco, Paraguay-Paraná, and Uruguay). Bunocephalus is the only...
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    Arapaima gigas (category Fish of the Amazon basin)
    of arapaima native to the basin of the Amazon River. Once believed to be the sole species in the genus, it is among the largest freshwater fish. The species...
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    Trachelyopterus insignis (category Magdalena River)
    to the lower Rio Magdalena river basin of Colombia. It lives close to the bottom of whatever body of water it inhabits and prefers as pH range of 6.0–7...
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    Hoplosternum magdalenae (category Magdalena River)
    drainages of Sinu River and Magdalena River in Colombia. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Hoplosternum magdalenae" in FishBase. December 2011 version...
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    Salminus brasiliensis (category Freshwater fish of Argentina)
    (dourado, dorado, golden dorado, river tiger or jaw characin) is a large, predatory characiform freshwater fish found in central and east-central South...
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    Astroblepus frenatus (category Magdalena River)
    frenatus is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found in the Magdalena, Orinoco and Catatumbo river basins in Colombia. A. frenatus...
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    Ghost knifefish (category Freshwater fish of South America)
    The ghost knifefishes are a family, Apteronotidae, of ray-finned fishes in the order Gymnotiformes. These fish are native to Panama and South America....
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    Chernoff (1992). "A Miocene fossil of the Amazonian fish Arapaima (Teleostei, Arapaimidae) from the Magdalena River region of Colombia--Biogeographic and evolutionary...
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    municipality in northern Colombia, in the Bolívar Department. The town initially grew from its proximity to the Magdalena river and has preserved much of its colonial...
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