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Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes) > Trichomycterinae
Etymology: Ituglanis: Greek, itys, ityos = circle + Greek, glanis = a fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook; a cat fish (Ref. 45335); boitata: The specific name boitata comes from the indigenous language Tupi-Guarani 'boi' (snake) and 'tata' (fire), in reference to the orangish coloration and to the species swimming behavior that resembles a snake. 'Boitata' snake is part of several fictitious tales in the Brazilian culture popularized in the Rio Grande do Sul State by the writer Simões Lopes Neto.
Ambiente: milieu / zona climatica / distribuzione batimetrica / gamma di distribuzione
Ecologia
; acqua dolce benthopelagico. Tropical
South America: Rio Araranguá, rio Mampituba and rio Tramandaí basins in Brazil.
Dimensione / Peso / Età
Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 12.3 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 104908)
Breve descrizione
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Vertebre: 41 - 42.
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
This species is often associated with clear water, rocky bottom, and small current streams and rivers in the middle and upper portions of three drainages (the rio Araranguá, rio Mampituba and rio Tramandaí basins) and has never been found in lagoons or surroundings swamps of the coastal plain (Ref. 104908).
Ciclo vitale e comportamento di accoppiamento
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecondità | Larve
Ferrer, J., L.M. Donin and L.R. Malabarba, 2015. A new species of Ituglanis Costa & Bockmann, 1993 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) endemic to the Tramandaí-Mampituba ecoregion, southern Brazil. Zootaxa 4020(2):375-389. (Ref. 104908)
Stato della Lista Rossa IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Minaccia per l'uomo
Harmless
Usi umani
Strumenti
Rapporti speciali
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Stime basate su modelli
Indice di diversità filogenetica (Fonte Biblio. 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=0.00759 (0.00332 - 0.01733), b=3.00 (2.81 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Livello trofico (Fonte Biblio. 69278) |
3.2 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Vulnerabilità della pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |