Sturisoma graffini
{{Short description|Species of catfish}}
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| taxon = Sturisoma graffini
| authority = Londoño-Burbano, 2018
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Sturisoma graffini{{Cite web |title=Sturisoma graffini Londoño-Burbano, 2018 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/9420886 |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}} is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Madre de Dios River basin in Peru. It was described in 2018 by Alejandro Londoño-Burbano of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro on the basis of its distinctive coloration and morphology.Londoño-Burbano, Alejandro. (2018). A new species of Sturisoma (Loricariidae: Loricariinae) from the Madre de Dios River basin, Peru, with a key to all congeners and comments on the type series of Sturisoma rostratum: A NEW STURISOMA FROM THE UPPER AMAZON BASIN. Journal of Fish Biology. 92. 10.1111/jfb.13560. Its specific name, graffini, honors the singer and evolutionary biologist Greg Graffin.{{Cite web |title=Sturisoma graffini • Loricariidae • Cat-eLog |url=https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=7180 |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=www.planetcatfish.com |language=en-gb}} FishBase does not yet list this species.
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Greg Graffin (b. 1964), “lead singer of the punk rock band Bad Religion, Ph.D. in Zoology, part time life sciences, palaeontology and evolution professor at University of California, Los Angeles and Cornell University.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/loricariinae/ | title = Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamily LORICARIINAE Rafinesque 1815 (Suckermouth Armored Catfishes) | access-date= 29 November 2024 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
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Category:Fish described in 2018
Category:Taxa named by Alejandro Londoño-Burbano
Category:Catfish of South America
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