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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Scoloplacidae (Spiny dwarf catfishes)
Etymology: Scoloplax: Greek, skoloplax = a thorned plate (Ref. 45335); baskini: Named for Jonathan Baskin for his significant contributions to Neotropical ichthyology including the description of the genus Scoloplax.
Eponymy: Dr Jonathan N Baskin (d: 1939) is a biologist and ichthyologist who was a member of the faculty at California State Polytechnic University which he joined (1971) and where he is now Professor Emeritus. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Etymology: Scoloplax: Greek, skoloplax = a thorned plate (Ref. 45335); baskini: Named for Jonathan Baskin for his significant contributions to Neotropical ichthyology including the description of the genus Scoloplax.
Eponymy: Dr Jonathan N Baskin (d: 1939) is a biologist and ichthyologist who was a member of the faculty at California State Polytechnic University which he joined (1971) and where he is now Professor Emeritus. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical; 5°S - 6°S, 60°W -
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South America: Brazil. Rio Aripuanã, a right-bank tributary of the middle rio Madeira (Ref. 79026).
Size / Weight / Age
Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Vertebrae: 25 - 27. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following unique characters: ventral midline plates between the anus and caudal peduncle has 2 longitudinal parallel rows of odontodes not covered by skin; all rays of pectoral and pelvic fins simple, unbranched; large specimens with odontodes in abdominal area between pelvic-fin bases and immediately anterior to genital papilla; mesethmoid has a thickened triangular anterior process; and larger specimens with small odontodes on first and second pelvic-fin rays (Ref. 79026).
Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); This species was found among leaf litter in small clearwater tributaries of the middle part of rio Aripuanã (Ref. 79026).
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Main reference
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Rocha, M.S, R.R. de Oliveira and L.H. Rapp Py-Daniel, 2008. Scoloplax baskini: a new spiny dwarf catfish from rio Aripuanã, Amazonas, Brazil (Loricarioidei: Scoloplacidae). Neotrop. Ichthyol. 6(3):323-328. (Ref. 79026)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 07 November 2018
CITES
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD50 = 0.5312 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.0 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).