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Trichomycterus albinotatus Costa, 1992

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Trichomycterus albinotatus is a common but not very abundant species. Habitat: Trichomycterus albinotatus is endemic to the Paraíba do Sul basin. It is collected with some frequency, but is not very abundant. Etymology: The specific name albinotatus: albus (L.), white; notatus (L.), marked, referring to white marks on upper body.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Trichomycteridae

Distribution:

South America: Upper course of the Rio Preto, Ribeirão Santa Clara and Córrego das Cruzes drainages, Paraíba do Sul River basin (Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil). Type locality: Estado do Rio de Janeiro: Visconde de Maua,
1 km O de la Ville de Maromba, rio Preto, bassin du rio Paraíba [22º30'S 44º15'], Brazil.

Size:

4.5cm. (2ins)

Temp:

23-26°c (73-77°f.)

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

IUCN Red List

Trichomycterus albinotatus is endemic to the Paraíba do Sul basin. It is collected fairly frequently, but is not very abundant. It occurs in an area impacted by urbanisation, which apparently does not represent a significant threat that puts its population at risk, and is categorised as Least Concern (LC), (IUCN 2022).

Reference:

de Pínna, M.C.C. and W. Wosiacki, 2003. Trichomycteridae (pencil or parasitic catfishes). p. 270-290. 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. 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 08/2024 ).
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). 2022. Trichomycterus albinotatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Trichomycterus albinotatus
Brazil, Maromba, Rio Preto, Resende (type locality)

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