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unusual facts about Corydoras


Corydoras revelatus

Although the species's position within the genus Corydoras is tentative and unresolved, its anatomy confirms that it is a member of the subfamily, Corydoradinae, and demonstrates that the callichthyids had already diverging or diversifying before the end of the Paleocene.


Biotope

An example of one South American biotope type might be lots of bog-wood, a few native plants, with dark substrata and subdued lighting with floating plants, along with marbled hatchets, angels, cardinals, otos, corys and plecostomus.

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Xingu corydoras, a species of South American "Corydoras" armoured catfish

Corydoras revelatus

Corydoras revelatus is an extinct species of callichthyid known from a single specimen found in Late Paleocene strata of the Mais Gordo Formation in Salta, Argentina.

Leopard bush fish

Good tank mates for the leopard bush fish include all gourami species, bala shark, silver dollar, Corydoras, Plecostomus species, Ancistrus catfish, and anything that won't fit into its mouth.

Sterba's corydoras

The species name of this Corydoras is in honour of Professor Dr Günther Sterba, professor emeritus of zoology of Leipzig University, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.


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