FB-69780 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69780 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Gobiiformes Gobiidae Cerogobius Cerogobius petrophilus Kovačić, Bogorodsky, Troyer & Tornabene, 2019 2022-07-15 2022-07-15 Evans, K.M., W.G.R. Crampton and J.S. Albert0 Taxonomic revision of the deep channel electric fish genus <i>Sternarchella</i> (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with descriptions of two new species. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 15(2):1-30. (Ref. 126780) Beolens, B., M. Grayson and M. Watkins0 Eponym dictionary of Fishes. Dunbeath, Caithness (Scotland, UK): Whittles Publishing Limited, 1300 p. (Ref. 128868) FB-GeneralDescr-69789 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-22 00:00:00 2022-07-22 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69789 Collected by trawling the river bottom where individuals inhabit deep river channels (10-20 m) during the day and move to shallower water at night to feed near the river margin and over flooded beaches. Stomach content indicates that these fishes feed primarily on larger-bodied (non-planktonic) aquatic insect larvae (e.g. Odonata and Ephemeroptera) and some juvenile fishes (Ref. 126780). Evans, K.M., W.G.R. Crampton and J.S. Albert 2017 Taxonomic revision of the deep channel electric fish genus <i>Sternarchella</i> (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with descriptions of two new species. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 15(2):1-30. (Ref. 126780) FB-DiagnosticDescr-69789 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-08-01 00:00:00 2022-08-01 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69789 This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the following characters: with two rows of bones visible externally in caudal peduncle (vs. one row in duccis, orinoco, orthos, raptor, sima, schotti) (shared with calhamazon, rex); continuous membrane of tissue connecting the anal-fin base and caudal peduncle (vs. no membrane in duccis, orinoco, orthos, raptor, sima, schotti) (shared with calhamazon, rex); presence of a long body-cavity, 14-15 pre-caudal vertebrae (vs. 12-14 in calhamazon and 16 duccis, orinoco, rex, sima, schotti) (shared with orthos, raptor); possess a ridge or crown of thorny projections at border of parietal and supraoccipital and epioccipital ridges (vs. absent in calhamazon, duccis, orinoco, raptor, rex, schotti, sima); with a ridge on the posterior dorsal surface of the basihyal (vs. ridge absent in calhamazon) (shared with duccis, orinoco, orthos, sima, schotti, rex, raptor) (Ref. 126780). Evans, K.M., W.G.R. Crampton and J.S. Albert 2017 Taxonomic revision of the deep channel electric fish genus <i>Sternarchella</i> (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with descriptions of two new species. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 15(2):1-30. (Ref. 126780) FB-Distribution-69789 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-22 00:00:00 2023-01-18 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69789 South America: Peru. Evans, K.M., W.G.R. Crampton and J.S. Albert 2017 Taxonomic revision of the deep channel electric fish genus <i>Sternarchella</i> (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with descriptions of two new species. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 15(2):1-30. (Ref. 126780) FB-Size-69789 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-22 00:00:00 2022-07-22 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69789 20.8 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 126780)) Evans, K.M., W.G.R. Crampton and J.S. Albert 2017 Taxonomic revision of the deep channel electric fish genus <i>Sternarchella</i> (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with descriptions of two new species. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 15(2):1-30. (Ref. 126780) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-69789 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-22 00:00:00 2022-07-22 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69789 benthopelagic; freshwater