Sturisomatichthys varii[1] is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae.

It is native to South America, where it occurs in the San Juan River basin in Colombia.

The species was described in 2019 by Alejandro Londoño-Burbano (of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Roberto E. Reis (of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) as part of a taxonomic revision of the genus Sturisomatichthys.

[2] The fish is named in honor of Richard P. Vari (1949–2016), of the National Museum of Natural History, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.[3]

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