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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Type locality, Descalvados, Mato Grosso (holotype of Hypoptopoma guentheri). Known from Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul; no records for the upper Paraná upstream of Salto das Sete Quedas (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) (Ref. 84367).
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Main Ref: Schaefer, S.A., 2003
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Common names from other countries

Matogrossonkiilamonni, Paraguaynkiilamonni, 乌拉圭下口蜻鲶, ... more

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypoptopomatinae
Etymology: Hypoptopoma: Greek, hypo = under + Greek, optoma, opsomai = to look at, to watch + Greek, poma = cover, operculum (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; demersal. Tropical

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South America: Río Paraná and Río Paraguay drainage basin; no records for the upper Paraná upstream of Salto das Sete Quedas (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.1 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 36885)

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Vertebrae: 25. This species is distinguished from its congeners by having the odontodes on the snout margin, the rostral plate, and first and second infraorbitals arranged in regular series; along the rostral margin, the dorsal and ventral series are separated by an odontode-free discontinuity approximately as wide as the base of individual odontodes; along the first and second infraorbitals, the discontinuity becomes narrower, but forms a dividing line between ventral and dorsal odontode series; odontode arrangement becomes more irregular posterolateral to the second infraorbital, and individual odontodes become roughly oriented with the trunk axis; in all other congeners, the ventral and dorsal odontodes on the rostrum are variably separated and/or covered by soft tissue, and odontodes are typically not clearly aligned in series (Ref. 84367).

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274)

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Schaefer, S.A., 2003. Loricariidae - Hypoptopomatinae (Armored catfishes). p. 321-329. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasi.l. (Ref. 36885)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 09 October 2020

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5001 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00759 (0.00337 - 0.01709), b=3.12 (2.93 - 3.31), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Hypoptopoma inexspectatum (Holmberg, 1893)