Knodus Ytuanama
📖 Overview
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🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal soft rays: 15 - 19; Vertebrae: 37. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: interradial membranes of the caudal fin thickened, forming folds between the branched rays of the upper and lower lobes; absence of a humeral blotch; presence of a dark, wide midlateral stripe extending along the sides of body from the posterior region of opercle to the middle caudal-fin rays; lateral line complete; absence of a dark blotch on the basis of the first five branched dorsal-fin rays; absence of two symmetric, large dark blotches basally on caudal fin lobes absence of lateral line interrupted many times; absence of midlateral stripe extending to lower lobe of caudal fin; a smaller eye, 28.3-35.0% HL; anal-fin length short, 21.4-24.9% SL; and the absence of a modified glandular tissue on the anal-fin lobe in mature males .: fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
🌀 Behaviour
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🦐 Diet
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🥚 Reproduction
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🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical South America: Brazil.
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