FB-62260 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62260 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Siluriformes Sisoridae Conta Conta pectinata Ng, 2005 2005-09-23 2012-02-28 Crampton, W.G.R., D.H. Thorsen and J.S. Albert0 Three new species from a diverse, sympatric assemblage of the electric fish Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) in the lowland Amazon basin, with notes on ecology. Copeia 2005(1):82-99. (Ref. 55508) Saks, L.0 Estonian Common Names, Rank 2. Personal communication (Ref. 116654) FB-GeneralDescr-62266 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-09-26 00:00:00 2021-09-16 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=62266 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription Inhabits root mats of floating meadows in floodplains. In the whitewater floodplain, juveniles are encountered in patches of floating macrophytes along lakes margins and along the edge of canos (drainage channels from lakes to the main river channels) and paranás (channels connected at both ends to the main river channel that transport whitewater through the floodplain). Floating macrophytes form extensive floating meadows. Undertakes aerial respiration by gulping atmospheric air into the hypervascularized posterior chamber of the gas bladder. Feeds primarily on chironomid larvae, small insect nymphs and small crustaceans (Ref. 55508). Crampton, W.G.R., D.H. Thorsen and J.S. Albert 2005 Three new species from a diverse, sympatric assemblage of the electric fish Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) in the lowland Amazon basin, with notes on ecology. Copeia 2005(1):82-99. (Ref. 55508) FB-DiagnosticDescr-62266 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-09-27 00:00:00 2005-09-27 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62266 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology Distinguished from its congeners endemic to the Amazon and Orinoco Basins and the Guyana Shield in having many pectoral-fin rays 20-22; and a color pattern of oblique and undivided thin pale bands, less than one-quarter width of dark bands, with straight high-contrast margins, which extend to the dorsal midline on the anterior half of the body, and of which many are interrupted at the ventral margin of the hypaxial muscles along the anterior two-thirds of the body. Differs further from congeners endemic to the Amazon-Orinoco basins and the Guyana Shield in having the following unique combination of characters: clear (unpigmented) patch at the caudal end of the anal-fin membrane in specimens 6.0-23.5 TL; and bands never divided to form band pairs (Ref. 55508). Crampton, W.G.R., D.H. Thorsen and J.S. Albert 2005 Three new species from a diverse, sympatric assemblage of the electric fish Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) in the lowland Amazon basin, with notes on ecology. Copeia 2005(1):82-99. (Ref. 55508) FB-Morphology-62266 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-09-27 00:00:00 2005-09-27 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62266 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Analsoft rays: 210 - 250 Crampton, W.G.R., D.H. Thorsen and J.S. Albert 2005 Three new species from a diverse, sympatric assemblage of the electric fish Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) in the lowland Amazon basin, with notes on ecology. Copeia 2005(1):82-99. (Ref. 55508) FB-Distribution-62266 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-09-26 00:00:00 2022-11-28 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62266 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses South America: varzea floodplain at the conflluence of the Rio Solimoes (Amazon) and the Rio Japura in Mamiraua Reserve near the Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil. Crampton, W.G.R., D.H. Thorsen and J.S. Albert 2005 Three new species from a diverse, sympatric assemblage of the electric fish Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) in the lowland Amazon basin, with notes on ecology. Copeia 2005(1):82-99. (Ref. 55508) FB-Size-62266 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-09-26 00:00:00 2021-09-16 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=62266 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy 21.5 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 55508)) Crampton, W.G.R., D.H. Thorsen and J.S. Albert 2005 Three new species from a diverse, sympatric assemblage of the electric fish Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) in the lowland Amazon basin, with notes on ecology. Copeia 2005(1):82-99. (Ref. 55508) 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-62266 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-09-26 00:00:00 2021-09-16 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=62266 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats benthopelagic; freshwater