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Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae
Etymology: Hypostomus: Greek, hypo = under + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335); cordovae: Presumably named for the type locality, Córdoba Province (Argentina)..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; demersal. Subtropical
South America: Argentina.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 24.8 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 121236)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 4. This species is distingusied from its congeners by the following characters: teeth bifid (vs. spoon-shaped); dark spots on a light background (vs. light spots on a dark background or not spotted); without 4 rough lateral ridges on flanks (vs. strong ridges present in H. commersoni, H. spiniger, H. laplatae); plates in lateral series 28-30 (vs. < 28 in several species or 31-32 in H. laplatae); body height 13.3-18.1% in SL and head length 25.9-30.7 in SL (vs. 17.724.7% and 27.5-38.7, respectively in H. commersoni, H. spiniger, H. laplatae) (Ref. 121236).
Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); The specimens were recently collected from seven rivers, where the substrate was mainly composed of sandstone boulders with patches of coarse sand and pebbles. It was found in well-oxygenated waters (6.9-11.2 mg/l) with strong current; water turbidity 1.29-75.1 NTU, conductivity 77-4.530 μS/cm, pH 7.8-8.8, and temperature 20.7-31.4°C (Ref. 121236).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Cardoso, Y.P., F. Brancolini, L. Protogino, A. Paracampo, S. Bogan, P. Posadas and J.I. Montoya-Burgos, 2019. An integrated approach clarifies the cryptic diversity in Hypostomus Lacépède 1803 from the Lower La Plata Basin. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciéncias 91(2):e20180131: [1-25]. (Ref. 121236)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01585 (0.00723 - 0.03476), b=2.96 (2.79 - 3.13), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Resilience (Ref.
120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (20 of 100).
