Corresponding author: Diana C. Montoya-Ospina ( montoyadianac@gmail.com ) Corresponding author: Carlos DoNascimiento ( cdonascimiento@humboldt.org.co ) Academic editor: Gabriela Echevarría © 2018 Diana C. Montoya-Ospina, Juan G. Albornoz-Garzón, Jorge E. García-Melo, Francisco A. Villa-Navarro, Carlos DoNascimiento. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Montoya-Ospina DC, Albornoz-Garzón JG, García-Melo JE, Villa-Navarro FA, DoNascimiento C (2018) First record of the miniature catfish Malacoglanis gelatinosus Myers & Weitzman, 1966 (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) in the Orinoco river basin. Check List 14(1): 101-106. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.1.101 |
Malacoglanis gelatinosus, a species of miniature catfish of the family Trichomycteridae, is only known from 4 specimens from the Amazon basin. Recently, we collected 3 specimens from the upper basin of the Meta River, a tributary of the Orinoco. This is the first record of M. gelatinosus from the Orinoco river basin, which significantly expands the known geographic distribution of this species, making it one of the most broadly distributed species within the subfamily Sarcoglanidinae. High-resolution photographs of specimens, remarks on character variation, and an updated distribution in Colombia are provided.