Salt and pepper catfish
| Salt and pepper catfish | |
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| female Corydoras habrosus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Callichthyidae |
| Genus: | Hoplisoma |
| Species: | H. habrosum
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| Binomial name | |
| Hoplisoma habrosum (S. H. Weitzman, 1960)
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The salt and pepper catfish (Hoplisoma habrosum), or dwarf cory, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Corydoradinae, the corys, of the family Callichthyidae, the armored catfishes. This catfish is found in the Upper Orinoco River basin in Venezuela and Colombia.