Tatia Strigata
📖 Overview
Collected in an igarape of rivers, hidden in submerged trunk. Feeds mainly on juvenile and adult insects.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 4 - 5; Anal soft rays: 9 - 10; Vertebrae: 29 - 30. Distinguished from all congeners by having a completely striped color pattern, bearing whitish elongate longitudinal irregular stripes along lateral sides of body. Adult male with a unique arrangement of modified anal fin, with the second unbranched anal-fin ray with anterior enlarged segments and a notch formed by the reduction of the second and third branched rays. Additional features useful to separate this species from all congeners include: pectoral-fin with four branched rays; 7 ribs; vertebrae 29-30; and upper caudal-fin lobe slightly elongated in mature males, same length in females .
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Tatia Strigata is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical; 9°N - 8°S, 72°W - 48°W South America: Central Amazon River basin, Negro River and Casiquiare Channel.
🌿 Ecology
juvenile and adult insects
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🦠 Common Diseases
The following diseases are known to affect Tatia Strigata.
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