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Pimelodidae (Long-whiskered catfishes)
Etymology: Aguarunichthys: From Aguarun, a Peruvian tribe that lives in the limit with Ecuador+ Greek, ichthys = fish.
Eponymy: The Awajun people, better known by the name Aguaruna, the second-largest native population in the Peruvian Amazon, occupy a portion of the Río Morona basin (Departamento Loreto, Peru), where these fish occur. INPA is the acronym for Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, which helped fund the authors’ field work (Aguarunichthys inpai) and whose staff supplied Ploeg with ‘enormous amounts of material’ which served partially as the basis for his [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Taxonomic Remarks
Collected at depth ~30 m, bottom trot-line.
Miljö: miljö / Klimatzon / djupintervall / distributionsområde
Ekologi
; sötvatten bentopelagisk; djupintervall ? - 30 m (Ref. 36506). Tropical
South America: middle Amazon River basin.
Storlek / Vikt / Ålder
Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 42.0 cm SL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 29005)
Taggstrålar i ryggfenan (totalt) : 1; Mjukstrålar i ryggfenan (totalt) : 6; Taggstrålar i analfenan: 5; Mjukstrålar i analfenan: 9.
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
Collected at depth of about 30 m using bottom trotline (Ref. 36506).
Livscykel och parningsbeteende
Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | Ägg | Fekunditet | Larver
Zuanon, J.A.S., L.H. Rapp Py-Daniel and M. Jégu, 1993. Two new species of Aguarunichthys from the Amazon basin (Siluroidei: Pimelodidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 4(3):251-260. (Ref. 29005)
Status på IUCN:s rödlista (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
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Index för fylogenetisk mångfald (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.6250 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00589 (0.00283 - 0.01223), b=3.10 (2.93 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Trofisk nivå (Ref. 69278) |
4.1 ±0.7 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Resiliens (Ref. 120179) |
Mellan, lägsta populationsfördubblingstid 1,4-4,4 år (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Sårbarhet i fisket (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (41 of 100). 🛈 |