Classification / Names
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Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; demersal. Tropical
Asia: Myanmar.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
This species is distinguished by the following characters: pectoral fin of male slanted upwards, branched ray 1 wider than following rays, branched once and branches close together, without membrane between them except near tip; wide, thickened unculiferous pad extending along the anterior branched pectoral-fin rays, covered dorsally by small conical tubercles; two air bladder capsules connected by a manubrium and posterior chamber small and circular, or absent; the lower lip with wide median interruption, two halves forming an acute angle, not in contact medially, wide and fleshy medially, forming a triangular ‘cushion’, partly free from jaw and connected to throat by a frenum; suborbital flap present, with small tubercles on the posterior extremity (Ref. 132209).
Cross section: oval.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Kottelat, M., 2018. Mustura celata, a new genus and species of loaches from northern Myanmar, and an overview of Physoschistura and related taxa (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 28(4):289-314. (Ref. 132209)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5001 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 2.8 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
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