The present work is part of a process to create a Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of
Colombia and consisted in the depuration and updating of the taxonomic and geographic
components of the checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia. An exhaustive revision of
the 1435 species recorded in 2008 was necessary to: 1. Add new species described since
2009 and species originally described from Colombia but inadvertently omitted in 2008; 2.
Add new records of already described species; 3. Delete species whose presence in …