Characidium jivaro

Characidium jivaro Zanata, Britzke, Meza-Vargas, Hidalgo, Faustino-Fuster & Oliveira-Silva, 2025

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Characiformes (Characins) > Crenuchidae (South American darters) > Characidiinae
Etymology: Characidium: Diminutive of Charax, -akos = a fish without identification (Ref. 45335); jivaro: Name 'jivaro' in honor of the Jívaro indigenous people, the inhabitants of the type locality. A noun in apposition.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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South America: Peru.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.6 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 138327)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal soft rays: 6; Vertebrae: 33 - 35. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: black longitudinal band that extends along the total length of the paired fins, from the base to tip of the third unbranched and first branched rays on pectorals and first two branched rays on the pelvic fins; bony processes along length of the pectoral-fin rays, dorsally positioned, on mature and immature females and males; teeth on the premaxilla and dentary strongly tricuspid, with three well developed and similar sized cusps; completely perforated lateral-line scales; lack of a conspicuous dark narrow stripe extending from rear of opercle to end of caudal peduncle; lack of 13 or more thin conspicuous black bars from dorsum to ventral portion of body; lack of dark blotches on opercle and preopercle; remnants of bars in maturing and matures specimens slightly concave anteriorly; four series of scales above the lateral line and three or four from the lateral line to the pelvic-fin insertion; and lack of dark spots on the caudal fin (Ref. 138327).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated; Cross section: oval.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Zanata, A.M., R. Britzke, V. Meza-Vargas, M.H. Hidalgo, D. Faustino-Fuster and L. Oliveira-Silva, 2025. A remarkable new Characidium (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from tributaries of río Marañón, Loreto, Peru, with unique fin bony processes in both sexes. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 23(3):e250047. (Ref. 138327)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

Not Evaluated 

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00452 - 0.02316), b=3.07 (2.89 - 3.25), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.3   ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈