Corydoras osteocarus

Species of fish

Corydoras osteocarus

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Siluriformes
Family:  | Callichthyidae
Genus:  | Corydoras
Species:  |

C. osteocarus

Binomial name
Corydoras osteocarus

J. E. Böhlke, 1951

Corydoras osteocarus is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the family Callichthyidae. It originates in South America, and is found in the Orinoco River basin in Venezuela and coastal rivers in Suriname. In the system of "C-Numbers" developed by the German fishkeeping magazine DATZ to identify undescribed species of Corydoras in the aquarium hobby, this fish had been assigned number "C60" until it was correctly identified.

The fish will grow in length up to 1.6 inches (4.1 centimeters). It lives in a tropical climate in water with a 6.0 – 8.0 pH, a water hardness of 2 – 25 dGH, and a temperature range of 70–77 °F (21–25 °C). It feeds on worms, benthic crustaceans, insects, and plant matter. It lays eggs in dense vegetation and adults do not guard the eggs. In captivity, it produces up to 300 eggs, which it usually attaches to plants. Hatching occurs in about 3–4 days at 21.4 °C (70.5 °F).

## See also

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* List of freshwater aquarium fish species

## References

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* Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Corydoras osteocarus". FishBase. December 2011 version.
* Evers, Hans-Georg. "A system called "C-Numbers"". Archived from the original on 2006-06-19. Retrieved 2006-06-08.

Taxon identifiers

Corydoras osteocarus|

* Wikidata: Q3763445
* Wikispecies: Corydoras osteocarus
* CoL: YPYW
* EoL: 215526
* FishBase: 46171
* GBIF: 2342717
* iNaturalist: 609689
* IRMNG: 10574022
* ITIS: 679846
* IUCN: 175718969
* NCBI: 927920
* Open Tree of Life: 481641
* WoRMS: 1014163

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