Image source: Jo's Animal Database
Central America: Atlantic Panama. Males do not grow larger than 10 centimeters and the females usually do not even reach 8 centimeters. Dorsal spines (total): 17 - 18; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9-10; Anal spines: 8-9; Anal soft rays: 7 - 9. This species is distinguished by having the following characters: yellowish breast, fins and throat; basal process on the largest first-arch gill-rakers; bicuspidate lower symphysial teeth with a small lingual cusp; distally two rows of interradial scales on anal fin; opercle with spots, part of a rather indistinct longitudinal stripe. Known only from the Rio Cañaveral basin that flows into the Atlantic Ocean just east of Laguna Chiriqui. Here it inhabits medium to fast-flowing rivers with a stony bottom. This region is difficult to access and only accessible by boat.
