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Geoffroy's Corydora
Corydoras geoffroy
Corydoras geoffroy, the wolf cory, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Corydoradinae, the corys, of the family Callichthyidae, the armoured catfishes. This species is found in the coastal rivers of French Guiana and Suriname.
It is the type species of the genus Corydoras.
From the article Corydoras geoffroy on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The fish is named in honor of Lacépède's colleague Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), for his observations of the various animals of Egypt, and in particular the fishes of the Nile.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 609646.