Callichthyidae

Skunk corydoras

Corydoras arcuatus

Callichthyid Fish of the Amazon Basin

• Freshwater fish
• Small

Brochis arcuata is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging the family Callichthyidae, the armored catfishes, and the subfamily Corydoradinae, the corys. It is restricted to the western Amazon basin, where it is only known from small blackwater or clearwater streams in the middle Juruá River basin, the Javari River basin and streams near Leticia in western Brazil, far northeastern Peru and far southeastern Colombia. The separation of B. arcuata and Hoplisoma granti was only fully clarified in 2019; information published for "B. arcuata" before this was almost invariably for H. granti.