Orestias parinacotensis | |
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Conservation status
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Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
Family: | Cyprinodontidae |
Genus: | Orestias |
Species: | O. parinacotensis
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Binomial name | |
Orestias parinacotensis Arratia, 1982
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Orestias parinacotensis is a species of pupfish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to northern Chile.[2] This fish was described in 1982 by María Gloria Eliana Arratia Fuentes from a type locality given as a wetland near the hamlet of Parinacota, Chile called the Bofedales de Parinacota.[3]