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Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes) > Trichomycterinae
Etymology: Trichomycterus: Greek, thrix = hair + Greek, mykter, -eros = nose (Ref. 45335); cachiraensis: Named for its type locality, the municipality of Cáchira, Departamento de Norte de Santander, Colombia.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
; eau douce benthopélagique. Tropical
South America: Colombia.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.9 cm SL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 83636)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
This species differs from its congeners by the following characters: anterior fontanel variably absent; posterior fontanel reduced to a small circular foramen and entirely located on the parieto-supraoccipital (Ref. 83636).
The rivers where the species was captured is of crystalline waters, with huge stones and sandy bottom. Temperature at the time of the collection is 17ºC. This species is associated with Astroblepus sp. One individual has 138 mature ova. Stomach contents include small shrimps and larvae of macroinvertebrates. The forest comprise of plants like the eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus), willow (Salix humboldtiana), Rubus floribundus and pine (Cupressus lusitanica) (Ref. 83636).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Ardila Rodríguez, C.A., 2008. Trichomycterus cachiraensis (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), nueva especie del Río Cachira, cuencia del Río Magdalena, Colombia. Dahlia (Rev. Asoc. Colomb. Ictiól.) 10:33-41. (Ref. 83636)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00912 (0.00394 - 0.02111), b=2.97 (2.79 - 3.15), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.2 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |