Sturisomatichthys varii

Sturisomatichthys varii^[1] is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the San Juan River basin in Colombia. The species was described in 2019 by Alejandro Londoño-Burbano (of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Roberto E. Reis (of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) as part of a taxonomic revision of the genus Sturisomatichthys.^[2]

Sturisomatichthys varii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Loricariidae
Genus:	Sturisomatichthys
Species:	S. varii
Binomial name
Sturisomatichthys varii Londoño-Burbano & R. E. dos Reis, 2019

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Richard P. Vari (1949–2016), of the National Museum of Natural History, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.^[3]