| Family: |
Loricariidae (Armored catfishes), subfamily: Hypostominae |
| Max. size: |
3.84 cm SL (male/unsexed) |
| Environment: |
demersal; freshwater |
| Distribution: |
South America: above Tencua Falls, Ventuari River of the upper Orinoco in Venezuela. |
| Diagnosis: |
Dorsal spines (total): 2-2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7-7; Anal soft rays: 5-5. Distinguished from all congeners by having 12 branched caudal-fin rays; from all Lithoxus except Lithoxus lithoides by having four branched anal-fin rays, and five interdorsal plates; from all Lithoxus except Lithoxus lithoides and Lithoxus stocki by having a convex posterior membranous extension of the adipose fin; from all Lithoxus except Lithoxus lithoides and Lithoxus bovallii by having medial premaxillary teeth with an enlarged and widened cusp; from all Lithoxus except Lithoxus lithoides, Lithoxus stocki and Lithoxus boujardi by having an obliquely truncate to slightly emarginate caudal; from Lithoxus lithoides by having a mode of 24 supramedian plates and a mode of 18 (range 16-25) hypertrophied cheek odontodes; and from Lithoxus pallidimaculatus and Lithoxus surinamensis by the presence of adipose fin (Ref. 79075). |
| Biology: |
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| IUCN Red List Status: |
Data deficient (DD); Date assessed: 24 May 2017 Ref. (130435)
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| Threat to humans: |
harmless |
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