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Trichomycterus barbouri (Eigenmann, 1911)

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Trichomycterus barbouri is the only species of the genus widely present in the chaco-pampean plain. (Luis A. Fernández (2000), Cardoso et al 2015). Habitat: Trichomycterus barbouri (Eigenmann, 1911) is a little-known species with a discontinuous distribution from the Beni River in Bolivia, in the Amazon River basin, to northwestern and central Argentina, in the Río de la Plata basin. Here, we describe new records of T. barbouri from three rivers of the chaco-pampean plain, two in the Santiago del Estero province and one in the Cuarto River basin in Córdoba province. These reports allow expanding the known area of distribution of the species, extending southwards the limit of the known distribution. Etymology: The specific name barbouri: In honour of American herpetologist Thomas Barbour (1884– 1946), later director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, who obtained holotype in La Paz, Bolivia, from a “person who had been prospecting along the Beni River”.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Pygidium barbouri

Family:

Trichomycteridae

Distribution:

South America: Amazon River basin, Bolivia, and la Plata River basin, Argentina, Beni River basin, Bolivia. Type locality: Río Beni, Bolivia.

Size:

4.0cm. (1¾ins)

Temp:

25-28°c (77-83°f.)

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

IUCN Red List

This species is listed as Least Concern because is widely distributed and occurs in several protected areas, (IUCN 2023).

Reference:

Brosse, S., G. Grenouillet, M. Gevrey, K. Khazraie and L. Tudesque, 2011. Small-scale gold mining erodes fish assemblage structure in small neotropical streams. Biodivers Conserv (2011)20:1013-1026.
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.
Cardoso, Y.P. & Bogan, Sergio. (2015). Expanding the distribution of Trichomycterus barbouri (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) for Argentina. 17. 147-151.
Carvajal-Vallejos, F.M. 2023. Trichomycterus barbouri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2023.
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. 2019. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 08/2019 ).
Luis A. Fernández (2000) Redescription of the teleost Trichomycterus barbouri (Eigenmann, 1911), occurrence in Argentina and comparison with related species (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 35:1, 27-33.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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