Gymnotus choco Albert, Crampton & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2003

Family:  Gymnotidae (Naked-back knifefishes), subfamily: Gymnotinae
Max. size:  26 cm TL (male/unsexed)
Environment:  benthopelagic; freshwater
Distribution:  South America: Río Baudó drainage on the Pacific slope of Colombia, and the Río Atrato, a Caribbean drainage in northern Colombia.
Diagnosis:  Dorsal spines (total): 0-0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0-0; Anal soft rays: 210-255. Color pattern of obliquely oriented pale-yellow bands which the band-interband margins are irregular and wavy, in which there are one to three inverted Y-shaped (divided ventrally) dark bands in the posterior portion of body (at bands 6-9 from posterior tip of tail), and in which the pale bands do not extend above the lateral line on the anterior 2/3 of body (Ref. 49716).
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Near Threatened (NT); Date assessed: 09 October 2014 Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless
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