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Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae
Etymology: Ancistrus: Greek, agkistron = hook (Ref. 45335); minutus: Named for its small size.
Issue
No later work.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Écologie
; eau douce démersal. Tropical
South America: Upper Tocantins tributaries upstream of the dam of Serra da Mesa in Goiás, Brazil.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.7 cm SL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 36713)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Épines dorsales (Total) : 1; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 6 - 7; Épines anales: 1; Rayons mous anaux: 4; Vertèbres: 28 - 29. Small, wide, and very depressed body; short dorsal fin (3.9-4.6 times in SL); wide mouth; a small area of supraoccipital plate often depressed, slightly granular or without odontodes; exposed part of nuchal plate minute or totally covered by skin; dorsal and fins brownish with numerous small whitish spots, lips and belly yellowish, totally or mostly unpigmented. Dermal plates along dorsal-fin base 7-8. Short interdorsal distance, 5.5-6 times in SL.
Facultative or obligate air-breathing (Ref. 126274)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Fisch-Muller, S., R. Mazzoni and C. Weber, 2001. Genetic and morphological evidences for two new sibling species of Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) in upper rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 12(4):289-304. (Ref. 40950)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Menacé (EN) (B2ab(i,ii,iii)); Date assessed: 07 November 2018
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
Pêcheries: sans intérêt
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01479 (0.00633 - 0.03455), b=2.99 (2.81 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).