Hypostomus yaku
| Hypostomus yaku | |
|---|---|
| Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Subfamily: | Hypostominae |
| Genus: | Hypostomus |
| Species: | H. yaku |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypostomus yaku Martins, Langeani & Zawadzki, 2014 | |
Hypostomus yaku is a species of South American armoured catfish from the Loricariidae family. It is only known from the Rio Quente, a small thermal stream in the Rio Paranaíba drainage of the upper Paraná basin, Brazil.[1] H. yaku is unusual when compared to other species of Hypostomus in that it tolerates warm water up to 34 °C and only attains a relatively small size, growing to 70.8 mm SL.[1]
Taxonomy
H. yaku can be distinguished from the other members of Hypostomus, some 140 plus species,[2] by the presence, in mature adults, of hypertrophied odontodes arranged randomly along its flanks and caudal peduncle.[1] This characteristic is also found in species of other Hypostominae genera, Aphanotorulus, Peckoltia and Squaliforma, but can be distinguished by several keys (see Martins et al. 2014).[1] H. yaku is most similar to two other species found in the same region, H. nigromaculatus and H. paulinus, but can differentiated by a lack of dark spots (versus presence in H. nigromaculatus)[3] and by smaller adult size (70.8mm SL versus 135mm SL in H. paulinus).[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Martins, F.O., Langeani, F. & Zawadzki, C.H. (2014). "A new spiny species of Hypostomus Lacépède (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) from thermal waters, upper rio Paraná basin, central Brazil" (PDF). Neotropical Ichthyology. 12 (4): 729–736. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20140035.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, W. N. "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ Ito, K.F., Renesto, E. & Zawadzki, C.H. (2009). "Biochemical comparison of two Hypostomus populations (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Atlântico Stream of the upper Paraná River basin, Brazil". Genetics and Molecular Biology. 32 (1): 51–57. doi:10.1590/s1415-47572009000100008.