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Elegant catfish
Corydoras elegans Steindachner, 1876
Also calledCoridora (por) · Corydoras élégant (fra) · Kirysek nadobny (pol)
First described in: Steindachner, F. (1876). Ichthyologische Beiträge (V). [Subtitles i-v.]. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> v. 74 (1. Abth.): 49-240, Pls. 1-15. [Also as a separate, pp. 1-192, Pls. 1-15. According to 1974 reprint of Ichthyologische Beiträge the date is 1877. Date of separate may be 1876, the date we use.].
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
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…
Every page naming Corydoras elegans in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2342623.