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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.
Environment: milieu / Zona climática / intervalo de profundidade / distribution range
Ecologia
; Água doce bentopelágico. Tropical
South America: Rio Araranguá, rio Mampituba and rio Tramandaí basins in Brazil.
Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturidade: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 12.3 cm SL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 104908)
Descrição suscinta
Chaves de identificação | Morfologia | Morfometria
Vértebras: 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 de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
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)
Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
Ameaça para os humanos
Harmless
Uso pelos humanos
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Estimates based on models
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00661 (0.00279 - 0.01564), b=2.99 (2.79 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Nível Trófico (Ref.
69278): 3.2 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
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