/siluriformes/loricariidae/pareiorhaphis/vetula/1.jpg "Pareiorhaphis vetula")
Holotype, male/siluriformes/loricariidae/pareiorhaphis/vetula/2.jpg "Pareiorhaphis vetula")
Holotype, male, dorsal view/siluriformes/loricariidae/pareiorhaphis/vetula/3.jpg "Pareiorhaphis vetula")
Holotype, male, ventral view/siluriformes/loricariidae/pareiorhaphis/vetula/4.jpg "Pareiorhaphis vetula")
Paratype, female, dorsal view
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| Scientific Name | Pareiorhaphis vetula Pereira, Lehmann A. & Reis, 2016 |
| Common Name | |
| Type Locality | Minas Gerais State, Santo Antônio do Itambé, rio Mãe d' Água at Cachoeira da Ponte de Pedra, tributary to Río Guanhães, Río Doce basin, Brazil, 18°27'16.5"S, 43°18'29.7"W. |
| Etymology | Pareiorhaphis vetula, from the Latin vetulus, old or a little old man, in allusion to the small size of adult specimens. An adjective. |
| Species Information | |
| Size | 49mm or 1.9" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp. |
| Identification | Pareiorhaphis species are primarily diagnosed
from remaining neoplecostomines by having the canal plate firmly articulated to the preopercle, and by a series of
sexually-dimorphic features of hypertrophied odontodes of adult males, giving the fish a hispid appearance. Pareiorhaphis vetula is distinguished from all congeners by having the maxillary barbel completely adnate (fused, not protruding) to the lower lip, and by adult males possessing a particularly elongate, sharply-pointed and conical urogenital papilla, which distinctly passes the level of the anal opening. P. vetula differs from other Pareiorhaphis by having a shorter pelvic-fin spine and being overall a much smaller fish (max SL 49.3mm). |
| Sexing | Males have small fleshy lobes on lateral margins of head, hypertrophied cheek and opercular odontodes, pectoral-fin spines thickened and bearing hyperthrophied odontodes, and much broader head. Additionally, males have large and pointed urogenital papilla, plates in dorsal and lateral portions of body covered by enlarged odontodes, and a small dermal flap on dorsal surface of pelvic-fin spine. Females lack above traits, and possess a narrower head which allows lateral margins of lower lip to be visible dorsally. |
| Habitat Information | |
| Distribution | Upper Rio Doce basin. Espirito Santo State Rivers, Doce (click on these areas to find other species found there) Login to view the map. |
| IUCN Red List Category | Not Evaluated |
| Other Parameters | In nature, this fish lives at altitudes of 755 and 850 m above sea level, in creeks of tea-colored dark water, with pools of slow current alternated by rapids, with depths between 0.3 and 2 m, and approximately 5 to 6 m wide. |
| Husbandry Information | |
| Furniture | In nature, the substrate is mostly big rocks, pebbles and sand, and the marginal vegetation is composed of grasses and mostly riparian forest. |
| Breeding | Unreported in the aquarium. |
| Breeding Reports | There is no breeding report. |
| Further Information | |
| Reference | Zootaxa 4144 (no. 3), pp 444, Figs. 1, 2C, 3A, 4. |
| Registered Keepers | There is no registered keeper. |
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| LFS label creator ARN ref:1.4.380.6684 | |
| Last Update | 2025 Jan 01 12:13 (species record created: 2016 Jul 27 20:25) |