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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypoptopomatinae
Etymology: Neoplecostomus: Greek, neos = new + Greek, plekos,-eos = twisted (Ref. 45335); watersi: Named for George Roger Waters an English composer, singer and guitar player from the rock ‘n’ roll band Pink Floyd for his talent as musician and social awareness around world, specially his brave concerns to Brazilian economic, social and politic issues..

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Freshwater; demersal. Tropical

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South America: Brazil.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 119403)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 5. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: absence of an adipose fin or azygous plates at the typical adipose-fin location (vs. reduced adipose fin or azygous plates in N. botucatu, N. paranensis nd a fully-developed adipose fin in all other species); differs from N. botucatu, N. paranensis by having a dark caudal fin with a unique v-shaped hyaline vertical area (vs. dark caudal fin with several irregular hyaline vertical bands) and having lower lip reaching or almost reaching branquial apertures transversal line (vs. far from reaching branquial apertures transversal line) (Ref. 119403).

Occurs in clear water, at the bottom of the rivers among and beneath the rocks (Ref. 119403).

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Silva, G.S.C., L. Reia, C.H. Zawadzki and F.F. Roxo, 2019. New species of Neoplecostomus (Neoplecostomini: Loricariidae) lacking adipose fin from upper Rio Paraná basin, central Brazil. Zootaxa 4544(1):93-102. (Ref. 119403)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Critically Endangered (CR) (B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii)); Date assessed: 07 December 2020

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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 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.02089 (0.00646 - 0.06755), b=3.03 (2.78 - 3.28), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

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