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Scleronema teiniagua Ferrer & Malabarba, 2020

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Freshwater Fish from Uruguay 2nd. edition (1)

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Description: Dorsal soft rays (total): 8-10; Anal soft rays: 6; Vertebrae: 34 - 35. This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the remarkable reduction in the laterosensory system lacking the pores s1, s2, s3 and s6 in the supraorbital line and pore i10 in the infraorbital line (vs. presence of, at least, pore i10) and the lower number of pterygiophores of dorsal fin 8 (vs. 9-14). Habitat: Occurs in rivers and streams but has not been collected with its congeners. Diet: Stomachs of two specimens contained immature aquatic Diptera (Chironomidae and Simuliidae) and Ephemeroptera. Etymology: Named for Teiniaguá, a princess transformed to a witch (a character from a fictional tale entitled ‘Salamanca do Jarau’ popularised in the Rio Grande do Sul State by the writer Simões Lopes Neto, that lives in a cave at the hill ‘Cerro do Jarau’, which is inserted in the area of distribution of the new species; noun in apposition.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Trichomycteridae

Distribution:

South America: South America: Río Uruguay basin (southern Brazil and Uruguay).

Size:

4.5cm (1¾ins)

Temp:

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

Reference:

Ferrer, J. and L.R. Malabarba, 2020. Systematic revision of the Neotropical catfish genus Scleronema (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), with descriptions of six new species from Pampa grasslands. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 18(2):1-81.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 06/2023 ).
Loureiro M, González-Bergonzoni I, Teixeira de Mello F. 2023. Freshwater Fishes of Uruguay. Second edition. Vertebrate Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, University of the Republic.

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Scleronema teiniagua

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