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Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes) > Trichomycterinae
Etymology: Scleronema: Greek, skleros = hard + Greek,nema = filament (Ref. 45335); teiniagua: Named for Teiniaguá, a princess transformed to a witch (a character from a fictional tale entitled ‘Salamanca do Jarau’ popularized in the Rio Grande do Sul State by the writer Simões Lopes Neto) that lives in a cave at the hill ‘Cerro do Jarau’, which is inserted in the area of distribution of the new species; noun in apposition..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; demersal. Tropical
South America: endemic to the drainage of the río Cuareím (Uruguay), a tributary to the left bank of lower rio Uruguay.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 4.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 122319)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 10; Anal soft rays: 6; Vertebrae: 34 - 35. This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the remarkable reduction in the laterosensory system lacking the pores s1, s2, s3 and s6 in the supraorbital line and pore i10 in the infraorbital line (vs. presence of, at least, pore i10) and the lower number of pterygiophores of dorsal fin 8 (vs. 9-14) (Ref. 122319).
Occurs in rivers and streams but has not been collected with its congeners. Stomachs of two specimens contained immature aquatic Diptera (Chironomidae and Simuliidae) and Ephemeroptera (Ref. 122319).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Ferrer, J. and L.R. Malabarba, 2020. Systematic revision of the Neotropical catfish genus Scleronema (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), with descriptions of six new species from Pampa grasslands. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 18(2):1-81. (Ref. 122319)
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=0.00661 (0.00282 - 0.01550), b=2.99 (2.79 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.1 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
