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Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypoptopomatinae
Etymology: Pareiorhaphis: Greek, pareia = jaw + Greek, rhaphis = needle (Ref. 45335); azygolechis: Named for the numerous preadipose azygous plates; noun in apposition..
More on authors: Pereira & Reis.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical
South America: rio São João drainage in Brazil.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 11.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 42856)
Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 6. Rictal barbel coalesced with the lower lip in a complex and ornamented fringe; slender pectoral-fin spine, thinner than pelvic-fin spine; lateral process of cleithrum developed above the origin of pectoral fin; mature males have short hypertrophied odontodes on margins of head hidden by big fleshy lobes (Ref. 42856).
Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628. (Ref. 58032)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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