Glyptothorax Siangensis

📖 Overview

Overview information for Glyptothorax Siangensis is currently being compiled by our editorial team.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 6; Anal spines: 3 - 4; Anal soft rays: 10; Vertebrae: 36 - 37. This species Is distinguished from its congeners from the Ganga–Brahmaputra drainage and its neighbouring drainages by the following set of characters: a thoracic adhesive apparatus with skin ridges in almost over the entire apparatus, including the depressed region with a sword-shaped median depression, which is narrowly opened posteriorly, not extending anteriorly onto the gular region; dorsal spine is distinctly greater than body depth at its origin, posteriorly serrated with 11-17 serrae, its length 18.0-19.0% SL; nuchal plate is saddle-like with W-shaped extensions; shallow body depth with depth at anus 13.3-14.9% SL; caudal peduncle depth, 8.3-9.1% SL; long nasal barbel, 27-35% head length; ventral surface of pectoral spine and first pelvic-fin ray non-plaited. Colouration: a complete longitudinal black band across the distal half of dorsal-fin; and 4-6 tips of neural spines extension visible as a row of edges between adipose fin and origin of procurrent rays of caudal-fin .Cross section: compressed.

🌀 Behaviour

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🦐 Diet

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🥚 Reproduction

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🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

🌿 Ecology

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