River
Cupari
2 profiles across 2 families name the Cupari as a locality.
- Species
- 2
- Families
- 2
- Photographed
- 2 of 2
- Difficulty rated
- 2 of 2
Basin
Also in the Amazon basinspecies recorded from both
Shares fishes with rivers elsewherespecies recorded from both
Runs through
Colomesus asellusAmazon Puffer
Tetraodontidae · Müller & Troschel, 1849
This species is also referred to as 'South American puffer', 'SAP', 'Amazonian puffer', 'Peruvian puffer', or 'Brazilian puffer' in the ornamental trade. Within the genus Colomesus, C. asellus can be immediately identified by possessing a unique transverse row of dermal flaps across the chin which is absent in its congeners C. psittacus and C. tocantinensis.
Iguanodectes spilurusGreen Line Lizard Tetra
Iguanodectidae · Günther, 1864
Widely-distributed throughout the Amazon, Orinoco, Essequibo, and Tocantins river systems in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana. Type locality is 'Rio Cupai [= Rio Cupari], Rio Tapajós basin, Amazon River drainage, Pará State, Brazil'.