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Rocio ocotal Schmitter-Soto, 2007
Accepted name
Check Catalog of Fishes: Genus: Rocio; Species: ocotal; Original reference
  Current accepted name :   
Yes
  Status details:   
senior synonym, original combination
  Status ref. :   
  Comment :   
  Etymology of Generic name : 
 
Named for the author's wife. In Spanish, the name means morning dew, in allusion to the resplendent spots on cheek and sides of some species, R. gemmata.
Etymology of specific name : 
 
Named for the lake where the species lives (the Spanish word 'ocota' meaning 'an ocote forest', 'ocote' being a species of Pinus); noun in apposition.
  Status in Catalogue of Life:   
Accepted name
 
 
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