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Tatia neivai (Ihering, 1930)

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Description: Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 4-5; Anal soft rays: 9 - 10; Vertebrae: 31 - 33. Differs from all congeners by its unique colour pattern with scattered small white spots over the sides of the body and caudal fin with dark vertical bars. Can be further distinguished by the following combination of characters: third nuchal plate broad, with short lateral projection, post-Weberian vertebrae alternatingly ribbed and unribbed; caudal-fin lobes of equal length in mature females, upper lobe more elongated in mature males; and 31-33 post-Weberian vertebrae. Habitat: Found in semi-lotic environments. Some individuals were observed hidden within marginal vegetation or found inside crevices of submersed trunks. Reproduction: Reaches sexual maturity above 4.81 cm SL. Aquarium Care: Keeping this species is not too much of a problem as long as the water is kept clean and not too alkaline with a p.H.of between 6.5 and 7.0. They do like a planted aquarium where they like to hide during the day. They also make a good show fish if showing your fish at shows is your forte, as they usually deport well in a show tank. Diet: In its native habitat they feed on insects, mostly ants, beetles, and mayflies and in the aquarium they will eat anything given such as frozen bloodworm which they will come out of hiding to feed on, catfish tablets, daphnia, white worm (sparingly) and any other worm-like foods. Etymology: The specific epithet neivai is in honour of Arthur Neiva (1880-1943), founder, Instituto Biológico, São Paulo.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Glanidium neivai

Family:

Auchenipteridae

Distribution:

South America: Piracicaba River basin in São Paulo State. Type locality: Piracicaba, Rio Piracicaba, Est. de S. Paulo.

Size:

8.0cm (3¼ins)

Temp:

26-28°c (79-83°f.)

p.H.

6.5-7.5.

Reference:

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2021. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 10/2021 ).
Sarmento-Soares, Luisa Maria; Martins-Pinheiro, Ronaldo Fernando A systematic revision of Tatia (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae: Centromochlinae) Neotropical Ichthyology, 6(3):495-542, 2008.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Tatia neivai

Tatia neivai
Sandovalina City, São Paulo State, Brazil

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