Trichomycterus guaraquessaba
| Trichomycterus guaraquessaba | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Trichomycteridae |
| Subfamily: | Trichomycterinae |
| Genus: | Trichomycterus |
| Species: | T. guaraquessaba |
| Binomial name | |
| Trichomycterus guaraquessaba Wosiacki, 2005 | |
Trichomycterus guaraquessaba is a species of pencil catfish presently only known from Rio Bracinho, a small isolated river in Paraná state, Brazil.
This is an elongate catfish up to 91.5 centimetres (36.0 in) standard length. It has no unique morphological features and can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of characters including a uniformly grey colouring with only small dark spots on the flank, pelvic fin not covering the urogenital opening and square-ended caudal fin.
References
- Wosiacki, W. B. (2005). "A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from south Brazil and redescription of T. iheringi (Eigenmann)". Zootaxa 1040: 49–64.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Trichomycterus guaraquessaba" in FishBase. February 2012 version.