Leporinus enyae

Leporinus enyae Burns, Chatfield, Birindelli & Sidlauskas, 2017

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Characiformes (Characins) > Anostomidae (Headstanders)
Etymology: Leporinus: Latin, lepus, leporis = rabbit (Ref. 45335); enyae: Named for the singer Enya, whose song 'Orinoco Flow' celebrates the flow of the mighty Orinoco River where this species is found; noun in the genitive case.
Eponymy: Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan) is known to the world as ‘Enya’ (d: 1961), an Irish singer, songwriter and musician. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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South America: Brazil and Venezuela.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 18.1 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 119688)

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This species is distinguished from its congeners except desmotes, jatuncochi, villasboasorum by having a long, pointed, laterally compressed and upward curving symphyseal dentary teeth (vs. the more truncate conical or incisiform teeth typical of other members of this genus; differs from bleheri, desmotes, jatuncochi, villasboasorum, yophorus by its color pattern consisting of 9 dark bars on the head and body, some of which fork dorsally or ventrally, the fifth of which continues onto the dorsal and pelvic fins (vs. various other color patterns); differs from jatuncochi and some specimens of desmotes by having 16 circumpeduncular scales (vs. 14); differs villasboasorum and specimens of desmotes with 16 circumpeduncular scales by having the dark bar immediately anterior of the dorsal fin undivided or barely divided dorsally (vs. well-divided dorsally) (Ref. 119688).
Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Burns, M.D., M. Chatfield, J.L.O. Birindelli and B.L. Sidlauskas, 2017. Systematic assessment of the Leporinus desmotes species complex, with a description of two new species. Neotropical Ichthyology, 15(2):e160166[1-23]. (Ref. 119688)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 16 November 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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