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Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes) > Trichomycterinae
Etymology: Trichomycterus: Greek, thrix = hair + Greek, mykter, -eros = nose (Ref. 45335); payaya: Named for the Payayá, an indigenous people who once inhabited the area south of the rio São Francisco, between the upper rio Itapicuru and rio Paraguassu valleys to the Recôncavo Baiano, in northern Bahia State.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; acqua dolce demersale. Tropical
South America: headwaters of the rio Itapicuru basin in Bahia, Brazil.
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.7 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 87309)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Sarmento-Soares, L.M., A.M. Zanata and R.F. Martins-Pinheiro, 2011. Trichomycterus payaya, new catfish (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from headwaters of Rio Itapicuru, Bahia, Brazil. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 9(2):261-271. (Ref. 87309)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00977 (0.00400 - 0.02388), b=3.04 (2.84 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-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).