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Rivulidae (Rivulines) > Rivulinae
Etymology: ubirajarai: From the author, Wilson Costa: "the name ubirajarai is in honour of Ubirajara Martins, entomologist at Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, professor of principles of taxonomy, who was teacher and friend during my early formation in Systematics, providing great enthusiasm for studying taxonomy of killifishes about 30 years ago" (Ref. 92338).
Eponymy: Dr Ubirajara Ribeiro ‘Bira’ Martins de Souza (1932–2015) was a Brazilian entomologist who spent his career researching at the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo (1959–2015) which had awarded his PhD (1975) and where he became a [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
; eau douce pélagique. Tropical; 17°S - 18°S, 52°W - 53°W
South America: Brazil, Estado de Goias, Municipo de Mineiros. Known only from the type locality, a stream tributary to the Babilônia River, upper Araguaia River Basin (Ref. 92338).
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.0 cm SL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 92338); 2.7 cm SL (female)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Differs from all other species of the genus, except M. litteratus, by the presence of a short dark yellowish grey stripe on the caudal fin in females, connecting black caudal spot on the middle of the fin (vs. never a horizontal mark in this position) (Ref. 92338).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Costa, W.J.E.M., 2012. Two new species of Melanorivulus from the Caiapós hill, upper Araguaia river basin, Brazil (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 23(3):211-218 (Ref. 92338)
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=0.00661 (0.00312 - 0.01398), b=3.10 (2.92 - 3.28), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.1 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |