Issue
No recent description. It is a slender species with a narrow black stripe across the body just above the middle and a reddish color in life (color photo, Ramiro Barriga). It appears to be limited to streams above 250 m elevation in northern tributaries of the Amazon River in Ecuador and Peru. It is not recorded from streams nearby in Colombia. Eschmeyer, 1998:522, Stewart, Barriga S, Ibarra, 1987:21; Ortega and Vari, 1986:10.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Écologie
; eau douce démersal. Tropical
South America: Amazon side of the Andes above 250 m elevation in Ecuador and Peru.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 14.3 cm SL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 37104)
Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larves
Weitzman, M. and S.H. Weitzman, 2003. Lebiasinidae (Pencil fishes). p. 241-251. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 37104)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435)
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00603 (0.00234 - 0.01555), b=3.09 (2.87 - 3.31), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Niveau trophique (Ref.
69278): 3.6 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).