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Etymology: Distocyclus: Greek, distokylos = that has two circles (Ref. 45335); guchereauae: Named for Miss Corinne Guchereau.
Eponymy: Corinne Guchereau is an administrator at MNHN. She was thanked for facilitating the technical aspects of the authors’ work for 15 years. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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

; agua dulce bentopelágico. Tropical

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South America: Litany and Tampoc rivers, Maroni drainage in French Guiana.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 33.1 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 97632)

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Radios blandos anales: 184 - 187; Vértebra: 56 - 84. Distocyclus guchereauae is distinguished by having grey color with several longitudinal lightly dark lines and the lowest being regularly striped, 13-14 precaudal vertebrae, 184-187 anal-fin rays in the undamaged specimens, a triangular head with a snout short (less than one third of the head length), a terminal mouth and the anus located straight below the eyes (Ref. 97632).

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Meunier, F.J., M. Jégu and P. Keith, 2014. Distocyclus guchereauae a new species of Neotropical electric fish, (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae), from French Guiana. Cybium 38(3):223-230. (Ref. 97632)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Near Threatened (NT) (B1a+2a; D2); Date assessed: 14 December 2022

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.7500 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00372 (0.00175 - 0.00789), b=2.97 (2.78 - 3.16), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278): 3.1 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (23 of 100).

Distocyclus guchereauae Meunier, Jégu & Keith, 2014