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P. hogotense E. Plains of Bogota to the Santa Marta mountains. ' 



P. venulosum Steindachner. Paramo de Cruz Verde at the eastern i 



edge of the Plain of Bogota. 10,000 feet. . j 



P. stellatu'))i E. Western slope of the Cordillera de Bogota. 



P. striatum Meek and Hildebrand. North and west of Bogota. 

 Southern Panama and Rio Dagua on the Pacific slope of Colombia. 1 



P. straminhim E. North of Bogota. Santander. 



P. nigromaadatum (Boulenger). North of Bogota, to Santa Marta. 1 



P. vanneaui E- Near Honda, west of Bogota. 



P. latistriatum E. North of Bogota. Santander. 



P. dorsostriatum E- East of Bogota at Villavicencio. 



Eremophilus Humboldt. ' 



E. midisii H. "El Capitan," the only food fish of the plain of Bo- ! 



gota. The genus and species is all but confined to the plain of Bogota. 

 It differs from Pygidium in having no ventral fins. It burrows in the | 



banks and bottom in ponds and rivers. 



LORICARIIDAE ! 



A South American family of armored catfishes, principally \ 



of the lowlands, a few species ascending to 7,000 feet or more. I 



Pseudancistrus Bleeker. 



Snout granular, with a large sucker mouth and bundles of spines 

 on the interoperculum, both adjustments to torrential conditions. 



Ps. setosus (Boulenger). North and west of Bogota u p to 7,400 j 



feet. On western slopes only. 1 



Ps. dagtiae E. East of Bogota and in the extreme west of Colombia. 

 Both slopes of the Andes. j 



Ps. pediculatus E. East of Bogota. Eastern slopes. 



Chaetostomus Tschudi. i 



I 



Snout naked. A large sucker mouth and interopercular bristles. 1 



Chaetostomus thomsoni Regan. West and north of Bogota up to i 



7,258 feet. ; 



Farlowella Eigenmann and Eigenmann. : 



Long slender fishes with no suggestion of adaptations to mountains. j 



F. acus (Kner). East of Bogota up to 4,500 feet. 1 



CHARACIDAE 



A very large family with the widest possible adaptations. 



Hemibrycon Giinther. 



From sea level to 7,000 feet. No particular structural adaptation 

 to high elevations. 



H. colomhianus E. North and west of Bogota, 4,620 feet. San- 

 tander. I 



H. tolimae E. North of Bogota and widely in the west of Colombia ' 



to 7,000 feet. j 



