Pimelodus Tetramerus

📖 Overview

Overview information for Pimelodus Tetramerus is currently being compiled by our editorial team.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

This species is distinguished from its congeners by having four dark stripes on the sides of the body, the most dorsal beginning just behind the pre-dorsal plate and finishing at the end of the adipose-fin base; the second, wider than the first one, running just above the lateral line and extending from the lateral border of the supra-occipital process to the caudal fin base; both stripes above are fragmented on its anterior portion, forming dark points that may join to form a vermiculate pattern; the dark dots and the vermiculate pattern extend over the dorsum, anterior to the dorsal-fin and head; third stripe, also wide, runs just below the lateral line and begin near the upper region of the postcleithral process and extends until the caudal fin base; fourth stripe, shorter than the three others, and absent in a few cases, begins above of the postcleithral process and ends nearly the pelvic fin; presence of a narrow light stripe on the lateral line, with about 1/3 of the width of the third dark stripe, and a dark longitudinal bar on the ventral lobe of caudal fin .

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Pimelodus Tetramerus is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

Diet information for Pimelodus Tetramerus is currently being compiled.

🥚 Reproduction

Reproduction data for Pimelodus Tetramerus is currently being compiled.

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical South America: Brazil.

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

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🛡️ Conservation Assessment

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

🐠 Related Species

🔍 Similar Species

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