Rhamdia quelen
Description
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Body elongated; greatest body depth contained 4.7 to 5.7, head depth 6.7 to 9.0 and caudal peduncle depth 5.6 to 8.4 times in SL; head length 4.1 to 4.2, anal-fin base length 7.8 to 8.8, adipose-fin base length 2.3 to 2.7 and maxillary-barbel length 2.1 to 2.7 times in SL; snout length 3.0 to 3.1, horizontal orbital diameter 5.6 to 6.1 and least interorbital width 3.0 to 3.1 times in HL. Mouth terminal; premaxilla and dentary with several diminute and viliform teeth. Dorsal fin with 7, pectoral fin with 8-10, pelvic fin with 6 and anal fin with 14-15 rays. Ground color beige to brown; some specimens can present scattered dark-brown chromatophores on body. Dark-grey or brown fins (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007).
Maximum standard length. 410.0 mm (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007).
Distribution. Widespread in South America rivers.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3678441 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3678395 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB0397B3847FFE9FFB4FFDA2B5A0600 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Quoy, Gaimard
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Heptapteridae
- Genus
- Rhamdia
- Species
- quelen
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhamdia quelen (Quoy, 1824) sec. Ota, Deprá, Graça & Pavanelli, 2018
References
- Pavanelli CS, Graca WJ, Zawadzki CH, Britski HA, Vidotti AP, Avelino GS, Verissimo S. Fishes from the Corumba Reservoir, Paranaiba River drainage, upper rio Parana basin, State of Goias, Brazil. Check List. 2007; 3 (1): 58 - 64.