Amblyceps accari, Nikhil’s torrent catfish : fisheries

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Amblyceps accari Dahanukar, Raghavan, Ali & Britz, 2016

Nikhil’s torrent catfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Amblycipitidae (Torrent catfishes)
Etymology: Amblyceps: Greek, amblys = soft, darkness + Latin, ceps = head (Ref. 45335);  accari: Specific epithet derives from ‘accari’ (pronounced achchari), the Kannada word for ‘surprise’ highlighting the authors excitement over the discovery of a new Amblyceps species in the Western Ghats (Ref. 112632).

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

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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Asia: currently known only from its type locality, the Tunga River at Kudremukh, a tributary of the Krishna River System in Karnataka State, India (Ref. 112632).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 4.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 112632)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 15. Diagnosis: 12 branched anal-fin rays; adipose fin confluent with the dorsal procurrent part of the caudal fin; jaws unequal with lower jaw weakly-projecting; pectoral spine smooth; adipose fin origin at vertical through anal fin origin;dorsal fin to adipose fin distance 29.2–30.2 %SL; adipose-fin base long, 28.1–33.2%SL; deeply forked caudal fin with poorly developed projections on the proximal lepidotrichia of the central caudal-fin rays (Ref. 112632).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Collected from among the stones, not the sandy portions, of the moderately flowing river (Ref. 112632).

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Dahanukar, N., R. Raghavan, A. Ali and R. Britz, 2016. Amblyceps accari, a new species of torrent catfish (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 4109(2):218-226 (Ref. 112632)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 12 June 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00244 - 0.04107), b=3.04 (2.81 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.1   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).