Panaque suttonorum

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Panaque suttonorum.JPG

| image_caption = A large (48cm/19") adult Panaque suttonorum in an aquarium. Taken at Pier Aquatics, UK.

| taxon = Panaque suttonorum

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| authority = Schultz, 1944

| synonyms = *Panaque suttoni

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Panaque suttonorum,{{cite journal|last1=Schultz|first1=L. P|title=The catfishes of Venezuela, with descriptions of thirty eight new forms|journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum|date=1944|volume=94|issue=3172|pages=173–338|doi=10.5479/si.00963801.94-3172.173 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7293599#page/185/mode/1up|accessdate=23 August 2014}} commonly known as the blue-eye panaque, is a species of freshwater fish from the South American catfish family Loricariidae. It is endemic to the Maracaibo Basin in Venezuela.{{cite journal|last1=Lujan|first1=Nathan. K|last2=Hidalgo|first2=Max|last3=Stewart|first3=Donald. J|title=Revision of Panaque (Panaque), with Descriptions of Three New Species from the Amazon Basin (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)|journal=Copeia|date=2010|volume=2010|issue=4|pages=676–704|doi=10.1643/CI-09-185|s2cid=85959658|url=http://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/abs/10.1643/CI-09-185|accessdate=23 August 2014|url-access=subscription}} In the wild, the species feeds on algae and reaches 28 cm (11 inches) SL, although it may grow larger in captivity.{{Cite web |date=2022 |editor-last=Froese |editor-first=Rainer |editor2-last=Pauly |editor2-first=Daniel |title=Panaque suttonorum |url=https://www.fishbase.se/summary/12217 |website=FishBase}}

In 2010, P. suttonorum was reevaluated and considered to be a sister species of Panaque cochliodon, due to the similarities between the two.