The Hyphessobrycon oritoensis lives in the benthopelagic, freshwater, pH range: 6.0 environment.
The new species is named Hyphessobrycon oritoensis (for the type locality, the Orito River in the Putumayo drainage in the Colombian Amazon) by Carlos García-Alzate, César Román-Valencia and Donald Taphorn in a recent issue of the journal Zootaxa. Hyphessobrycon oritoensis belongs to the H. More