Aspistor luniscutis (Valenciennes,
1840) |
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contributors to this species: |
Carla Isobel Elliff
(1) Alfredo Carvalho
Filho (2) |
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Relevant Information: |
Aspistor luniscutis occurs
along the eastern coast of South America from the Guianas to
Brazil, and may reach a maximum length of 1.2 m (Figueiredo
& Menezes 1978). Like the other species, it occupies marine
and brackish environments (Marceniuk & Menezes 2007). Knowledge
about this species is also very sparse (Mishima & Tanji
1982, Azevedo et al. 1999). The family Ariidae includes the
catfishes, marine and brackish water leather fishes (Figueiredo
& Menezes 1978). The family has a wide distribution in tropical
and temperate waters, and its members occur near the coast,
in estuaries and inland waters; few are strictly marine (Marceniuk
& Menezes 2007). The catfishes seek out river mouths and
lagoons during the spawning period (Figueiredo & Menezes
1978). They have a wide feeding spectrum, which may vary during
their ontogenetic development, with the diet mostly constituted
of detritus, decapods, fish, polychaetes and bivalves (Espírito
Santo & Isaac 1999). The reproduction occurs normally, in
the warmer months of the year or during the rainy period, when
there is a major uptake from rivers (Mazzoni et al. 2000, Gomes
& Araújo 2004, Fávaro et al. 2005). Remarks:
The first thumbnail specimen was captured in Santos, Brazil
in May 2011. Habitat: brackish, marine. |
Common
Name: |
None |
Synonyms: |
Arius luniscutis,
Arius physacanthus, Arius
bonneti, Arius clavispinosus,
Arius despaxi, Notarius
luniscutis |
Family: |
Ariidae mblycipitidae |
Distribution: |
South
America: Atlantic coastal rivers of South America from
French Guiana to southern Brazill. |
Size:
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120.cm.TL
(4ft) |
Temp: |
20-27°c
(67-81°f ) |
p.H. |
6.5-8.0. |
Reference: |
Froese, R. and D. Pauly.
Editors. 2015. FishBase.World Wide Web electronic publication.www.fishbase.org,
version (10/2015).
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes,
recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue
of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Marceniuk, A.P. and N.A. Menezes, 2007. Systematics
of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition
of the genera. Zootaxa 1416:1-126.
Eduardo Bessa, Flávia Borges Santos, Wellington
Silva Fernandez, Fernanda Motta da Costa Santos, Mônica
Malagutti Feijó, Andreza Cristina Dias Arcuri & Alexander
Turra. http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v12n4/en/abstract?article+bn01912042012
Life history of three catfish species (Siluriformes: Ariidae)
from southeastern Brazil
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