Callichthyidae

Bonehead cory

Corydoras osteocarus

• Freshwater fish
• Small

Hoplisoma osteocarum, the bonehead cory or pepper cory, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Corydoradinae, the corys, of the family Callichthyidae, the armoured catfishes. This catfish is found in the Orinoco River basin in Colmbia and Venezuela. In the system of "C-Numbers" developed by the German fishkeeping magazine DATZ to identify undescribed species of Corydoras in the aquarium hobby, this fish had been assigned number "C60" until it was correctly identified.