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Phenacorhamdia nigrolineata Zarske, 1998

Image contributors to this species:

Allan James (1) Steven Grant (1)

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Relevant Information:

Habitat: This specimen was captured by the image contributors in a small tributary of the Rio de Las Piedras in the Madre de Dios region, Peru in 2017. This species occurs in the Amazon river basin of Peru and Colombia (Maldonado-Ocampo et al. 2008, Ortega et al. 2012) and possibly in the Napo-Pastaza basin of Ecuador (Barriga 2012). Its type locality is "Tierra Roja an der Strasse Campoverde - Tournavista, near Pucallpa, in the Ucayali Deptment, Peru" (Zarske 1998). It mainly occurs in tributaries. In Colombia this species occurs between 100 to 200 m asl. Remarks: In the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species it is classified as data deficient.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Heptapteridae

Distribution:

South America: Ucayali River basin in Peru. Type locality: Tierra Roja na der Strabe Campoverde —Tournavista, nahe Pucallpa, Departamento Ucayali, Peru.

Size:

4.0cm. (1½ins)

Temp:

24-26°C (75-79°F)

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

Reference:

Bockmann, F.A. and G.M. Guazzelli, 2003. Heptapteridae (Heptapterids). p. 406-431. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
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. 2017. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, (04/2018).
Grant; Steven, pers. comm.
Velasquez, M. & Sanchez-Duarte, P. 2016. Phenacorhamdia nigrolineata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.

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Phenacorhamdia nigrolineata

Phenacorhamdia nigrolineata

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