Loricaria cuffyi Londoño-Burbano, Urbano-Bonilla & Thomas, 2020
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
Loricaria cuffyi is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Loricariidae, the suckermouth armored catfishes, and the subfamily Loricariinae, the mailed catfishes. It is found in South America, where it occurs in the Essequibo River and Rio Negro basins in Guyana, as well as the Orinoco basin in Venezuela, and it also probably occurs in Brazil, with its type locality being designated as the Ireng River. The species was described in 2020 on the basis of 36 specimens by Alejandro Londoño-Burbano, Alexander Urbano-Bonilla and Matthew R. Thomas.
The specific name honours Cuffy (also spelled Coffy, Kofi, Koffi) the leader of a 1763 slave uprising in the Dutch colony of Berbice against the Dutch colonial regime, this revolt resulted in the slaves' freedom and Cuffy declared himself Governor of Berbice, he is regarded as Guyana’s first national hero.
Wikipedia contributors, Loricaria cuffyi; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T23:04:42.579788+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Loricaria cuffyi Londoño-Burbano, Urbano-Bonilla & Thomas, 2020
- Name authority
- Londoño-Burbano, Urbano-Bonilla & Thomas, 2020
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Loricariidae
- Genus
- Loricaria
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderSiluriformes
- familyLoricariidae Rafinesque, 1815
- subfamilyLoricariinae Rafinesque, 1815
- tribeLoricariini Rafinesque, 1815
- genusLoricaria Linnaeus, 1758
- speciesLoricaria cuffyi Londoño-Burbano, Urbano-Bonilla & Thomas, 2020
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Loricaria. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Loricaria birindellii Thomas & Sabaj Pérez, 2010 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria cataphracta Linnaeus, 1758 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria lentiginosa Isbrücker, 1979 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria nickeriensis Isbrücker, 1979 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria simillima Regan, 1904 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria spinulifera Thomas & Rapp Py-Daniel, 2008 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria luciae Thomas, Rodriguez, Carvallaro, Froehlich & Macedo Corrêa e Castro, 2013 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria pumila Thomas & Rapp Py-Daniel, 2008 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria tucumanensis Isbrücker, 1979 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria turi Saraiva, Abreu, Ottoni & Piorski, 2021 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria catirina Serejo-Saraiva, Piorski, Ottoni, Sabaj Pérez & Lima, 2026 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loricaria apeltogaster Boulenger, 1895 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Londoño‐Burbano, A.; Urbano‐Bonilla, A.; Thomas, M. R. (2020). Loricaria cuffyi (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new species of loricariin catfish from the Guiana Shield. Journal of Fish Biology, 98. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14566 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:D5G76. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.