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Orestias parinacotensis

Orestias parinacotensis

Orestias parinacotensis, locally known as karachi, is a species of pupfish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to northern Chile. This fish was described in 1982 by María Gloria Eliana Arratia Fuentes from a type locality given as a wetland near the hamlet of Parinacota, Chile called the Bofedales de Parinacota.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Chile · 1