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Apteronotidae (Ghost knifefishes) > Apteronotinae
Etymology: Sternarchella: Greek, sternon = sternon, + Greek, diminutive, archos = anus (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: DUCCIS is an acronym of the ichthyological society, the Duke University Center for Creative Ichthyological Studies. It is pronounced ‘doo-sis’. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Meio ambiente: milieu / Zona climática / intervalo de profundidade / faixa de distribuição
Ecologia
; Água doce bentopelágico; intervalo de profundidade 1 - 23 m (Ref. 13085). Tropical
South America: Amazon basin.
Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturidade: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 22.6 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 13085)
Descrição suscinta
Chaves de identificação | Morfologia | Morfometria
This species is distinguished from all congeners by the following characters: with a highly superior mouth, the lower jaw projecting upwards beyond the upper jaw (vs. terminal in calhamazon, orthos, patriciae, raptor, rex, schotti and sub-terminal in orinoco, sima); a strongly concave dorsal margin of the frontal (vs. straight in calhamazon, orthos, patriciae, raptor, rex, schotti and convex in orinoco, sima) (shared with Eastern Amazonian populations of S. orthos) (Ref. 126780).
Cross section: compressed.
Inhabit deep channels of white-water and black-water rivers (Ref. 13085); collected at low densities. Stomach content analysis indicates that it feeds entirely on the tails and scales of other electric fishes (Ref. 126780).
Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Evans, K.M., W.G.R. Crampton and J.S. Albert, 2017. Taxonomic revision of the deep channel electric fish genus Sternarchella (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with descriptions of two new species. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 15(2):1-30. (Ref. 126780)
Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Ameaça para os humanos
Harmless
Uso pelos humanos
Pescarias: sem interesse
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Estimativas baseadas em modelos
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00347 (0.00141 - 0.00851), b=3.06 (2.85 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nível Trófico (Ref. 69278) |
3.3 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Vulnerabilidade da pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (12 of 100). 🛈 |