Corumbataia britskii

Corumbataia britskii Ferreira & Ribeiro, 2007

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypoptopomatinae
Etymology: Corumbataia: A locality, Corumbataia do Sul, in Brasil; britskii: Named.
Eponymy: Dr Heraldo Antonio Britski is a Brazilian ichthyologist who was awarded a bachelor’s degree (1960) and a doctorate (1973) by Universidade de São Paulo where he is still a researcher, even though he is officially retired. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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

Freshwater; demersal. Tropical

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South America: upper Rio Paraná basin in Brazil.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 2.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 57842)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Vertebrae: 27 - 28. Distinguished from its congeners by possessing a more depressed head profile, a more developed and conspicuous tuft of enlarged odontodes on the tip of the supraoccipital and a partially enclosed arrector fossae.
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found in deforested areas in moderate to fast current streams and in association with aquatic macrophytes or in the submerged portion of marginal vegetation. Feeds on filamentous blue-green algae, chlorophytes, diatoms and periderm (Ref. 57842).

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Ferreira, K.M. and A.C. Ribeiro, 2007. Corumbataia britskii (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) a new species from the upper Rio Paraná basin, Mato Grosso do Sul, central Brazil. Zootaxa 1386:59-68. (Ref. 57842)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

  Vulnerable (VU) (D2); Date assessed: 07 November 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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