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Crossoloricaria venezuelae (Schultz, 1944)

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Description: This genus is similar looking to the Pseudohemiodon genera but the latter has bony plates on the underneath wheras Crossiloricaria is nearly naked apart from a line of small platelets along the medial ventral line. Aquarium Care: Provide hiding places and a sandy substrate where this species likes to bury itself. Diet: Insect larvae. Etymology: The specific name venezuelae: Of Venezuela, referring to type locality in Lake Maracaibo drainage, and to the “courtesy shown [to Schultz] while collecting specimens there in 1942”.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Loricaria variegata venezuelae

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Lake Maracaibo drainage (Schultz, 1944); also Magdalena River basin, Colombia. Type locality: Río Palmar at the bridge about 70 km southwest of Maracaibo [Venezuela].

Size:

18.0cm. (7ins)

Temp:

22-26°c (71-79°f.)

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

IUCN Red List

Assessed as Least Concern due to the relatively wide distribution and relatively intact surrounding habitat. While there is an inferred increase in habitat degradation and water pollution within the species distribution, it is thought that the number of relatively well conserved river tributaries which lead to the lake provide sufficient habitat that this species is not adversely affected. However, further research into the impact these threats have on C. venezuelae would be useful in confirming this species status (LC), (needs updating IUCN 2009).

Reference:

Burgess, W.E., 1989. An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes. A preliminary survey of the Siluriformes. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey (USA). 784 p.
Evers, H.-G. & I.Seidel: Mergus, Baensch Catfish Atlas Volume 1, 1st English edn., 2005. Pp.944.
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. 2016. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 10/2016 ).
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Crossoloricaria venezuelae
Dorsal view

Crossoloricaria venezuelae
Ventral view

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