Avalithoxus Jantjae

📖 Overview

Overview information for Avalithoxus Jantjae is currently being compiled by our editorial team.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 5. Distinguished from all congeners by having 12 branched caudal-fin rays; from all Lithoxus except Lithoxus lithoides by having four branched anal-fin rays, and five interdorsal plates; from all Lithoxus except Lithoxus lithoides and Lithoxus stocki by having a convex posterior membranous extension of the adipose fin; from all Lithoxus except Lithoxus lithoides and Lithoxus bovallii by having medial premaxillary teeth with an enlarged and widened cusp; from all Lithoxus except Lithoxus lithoides, Lithoxus stocki and Lithoxus boujardi by having an obliquely truncate to slightly emarginate caudal; from Lithoxus lithoides by having a mode of 24 supramedian plates and a mode of 18 (range 16-25) hypertrophied cheek odontodes; and from Lithoxus pallidimaculatus and Lithoxus surinamensis by the presence of adipose fin .: elongated.

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Avalithoxus Jantjae is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

Diet information for Avalithoxus Jantjae is currently being compiled.

🥚 Reproduction

Reproduction data for Avalithoxus Jantjae is currently being compiled.

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Freshwater; demersal. Tropical South America: above Tencua Falls, Ventuari River of the upper Orinoco in Venezuela.

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

🛡️ Conservation Assessment

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

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