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No image available for this species; drawing shows typical species in Sternopygidae.
分類 / Names 俗名 | 同種異名 | Catalog of Fishes(屬, 種) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei > Gymnotiformes (Knifefishes) 電鰻目 (Knifefishes) > Sternopygidae (Glass knifefishes) 胸肛魚科 (Glass knifefishes)
Etymology: Eigenmannia:From Eigenmann, 1910, researcher of faunistic studies (Ref. 45335); macuxi:Named after the indigenous people whose home territory is near the type locality of the new species in Roraima, Brazil; noun in apposition. Eponymy: Professor Dr Carl Henry Eigenmann (1863–1927) was a German-born American ichthyologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / 深度上下限 / distribution range 生態學
臀鰭軟條: 166 - 219. This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the following set of characters: lateral line stripe extending from first perforated lateral line scale to the distal portion of caudal filament; with
superior midlateral stripe with origin posterior to end of body cavity; anal-fin hyaline; caudal filament corresponding to 15.2-43.1% LEA; mouth subterminal; pectoral-fin rays ii,14-16; A 166-219; scale rows above lateral line at vertical through posterior tip of pectoral fin 10-13; lateral line scales 100-128; premaxillary teeth 22-28; dentary teeth 19-23; endopterygoid teeth 7-10; depth of posterodorsal expansion on infraorbitals 1 + 2 half as long as infraorbitals 1 + 2 length; basibranchial 1 unossified; precaudal vertebrae 13; length of coronomeckelian bone corresponding to 20% of Meckel's cartilage length (Ref. 132316). Cross section: compressed.
Life cycle and mating behavior 成熟度 | 繁殖 | 產卵場 | 卵 | 孕卵數 | 仔魚
Dutra, G.M., L.A.W. Peixoto, L.M. Donin, C.D. de Santana and N.A. Menezes, 2024. Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of the glass knifefish genus Eigenmannia Jordan & Evermann, 1896 (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from the Rio Branco basin, Brazil. J. Fish Biol. 105(3):825-840. (Ref. 132316)
