Farlowella is a genus of fish in the family Loricariidae native to South America.

This genus is broadly distributed in Amazon, Orinoco, Paraná and coastal rivers of the Guyana Shield.

This genus has a unique body shape that resembles a thin stick of wood.

The body is slender and elongate, often with a pronounced rostrum and a brownish color with two lateral dark stripes beginning at the tip of the rostrum, passing over the eyes and ending at the tail, which are periodically interrupted on the caudal peduncle.

[1] The genus name of Farlowella is named in honor of William Gilson Farlow, a famous American botanist of Harvard University whose main work was working with algae plants, the favorite food of this slender catfish.