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Transancistrus aequinoctialis (Pellegrin, 1909)

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Habitat: This species is endemic to Ecuador where it occurs in the Mira, Esmeraldas, Guayas and El Oro River basins (Barriga 2012; Ferraris 2007). Diet: This is a benthonic fish that inhabit in a substrates of sand and/or small rocks. Their diet is based on detritus and insects. Etymology: The genus name Transancistrus: trans (L.), over or beyond, referring to distribution of genus across rivers draining Pacific slope of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador; ancistrus, a root name for many hypostomine genera that have clusters of enlarged evertible cheek odontodes, from ágkistron (Gr. äyklotpov) fishhook or hook of a spindle.The specific name aequinoctialis: Latin for equinoctial (but here apparently meaning equatorial), referring to its type locality just 13’ south of the equator in Ecuador. Remarks: This species is listed as Least Concern because it is widely distributed, is common and there are no major threats affecting it (IUCN 2014).

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Chaetostoma aequinoctiale, Chaetostomus aequinoctialis, Chatostomus aequinoctialis

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Río Guayllabamba basin (Ecuador). Type Locality: Rio Pove, Santo Domingo de los Colorados (560 mètres), Équateur.

Size:

9.0cm. (3½ins)

Temp:

20-25°c (67-77°f.)

p.H.

6.0-7.5.

Reference:

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 06/2024 ).
Jimenez-Prado, P. & Arguello, P. 2016. Chaetostoma aequinoctiale. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.
Lujan, N.K., V. Meza-Vargas and R. Barriga-Salazar, 2015. Two new Chaetostoma group (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) sister genera from opposite sides of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, with description of one new species. Copeia 103(3):651-663.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Transancistrus aequinoctialis

Transancistrus aequinoctialis
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