FB-62343 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62343 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Characiformes Acestrorhamphidae Astyanax Astyanax clavitaeniatus Garutti, 2003 2005-11-16 2021-09-16 Hoese, D.F. and M. Kottelat0 Bostrychus microphthalmus, a new microphthalmic cavefish from Sulawesi (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 16(2):183-191. (Ref. 55841) FB-GeneralDescr-62349 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-11-17 00:00:00 2005-11-17 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62349 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Inhabits caves, usually in backwaters where it lies on clay bottom (Ref. 55841). Hoese, D.F. and M. Kottelat 2005 Bostrychus microphthalmus, a new microphthalmic cavefish from Sulawesi (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 16(2):183-191. (Ref. 55841) FB-DiagnosticDescr-62349 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-11-17 00:00:00 2005-11-17 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62349 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Differs from other species of the genus by possessing reduced eyes covered with skin and reduced head canal development, body pigment and head squamation. Distinguished by the combination of the following characters: eye minute, covered with skin; vomer with a patch of teeth conical and short, with pointed tips, arranged in 5-6 rows in an inverted V; palatine without teeth; head pores present, lateral canal tube above operculum and preoperculum reduced, absent or confined to a short detached tube above preoperculum and/or a short tube above operculum; predorsal scales cycloid, reaching forward to near anterior end of snout; operculum with small embedded cycloid scales; side of head covered with embedded scales, except for below and before anterior margin of eye; no scales on interoperculum or branchiostegal membranes; gill opening extending forward to below a point 2-3 eye diameters before posterior preopercular margin (to just before margin in one specimen); first dorsal-fin pterygiophore formula 4 (12211) in 2 or 3 (131111) in 2, last 2-3 pterygiophores without spines; vertebrae 14-15 + 15-16 = 29-30; body pale, with few melanophores along margins of scales on dorsal surface of body (Ref. 55841).Description: First dorsal fin spines 5, 6; second dorsal fin I,10-12 (Ref. 55841). Hoese, D.F. and M. Kottelat 2005 Bostrychus microphthalmus, a new microphthalmic cavefish from Sulawesi (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 16(2):183-191. (Ref. 55841) FB-Morphology-62349 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-11-17 00:00:00 2005-11-17 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62349 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Anal spines: 1; Analsoft rays: 9 - 10; Vertebrae: 29 - 30 Hoese, D.F. and M. Kottelat 2005 Bostrychus microphthalmus, a new microphthalmic cavefish from Sulawesi (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 16(2):183-191. (Ref. 55841) FB-Distribution-62349 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-11-17 00:00:00 2005-11-17 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62349 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Asia: Sulawesi, Indonesia. Hoese, D.F. and M. Kottelat 2005 Bostrychus microphthalmus, a new microphthalmic cavefish from Sulawesi (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 16(2):183-191. (Ref. 55841) FB-Size-62349 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-11-17 00:00:00 2005-11-17 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62349 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution 7.5 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 55841)) Hoese, D.F. and M. Kottelat 2005 Bostrychus microphthalmus, a new microphthalmic cavefish from Sulawesi (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 16(2):183-191. (Ref. 55841) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-62349 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-11-17 00:00:00 2005-11-17 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62349 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats demersal; freshwater