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Ancistrus galani
Ancistrus galani is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs only in Los Laureles Cave, at an elevation of 650 m (2,130 ft) above sea level, in the Socuy River basin, which is part of the Lake Maracaibo drainage system in the state of Zulia in Venezuela. The species reaches 5.6 cm (2.2 in) SL and was named after Carlos Galan, a Venezuelan speleologist. A. galani differs from most Ancistrus...
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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 616126.