 Summary of potamoglanis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Etymology | From the Greek potamo (river; the gods of rivers in the Greek mythology) and glanis (catfish). Gender masculine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Identification | The genus Potamoglanis is a group of miniaturized Trichomycterinae, diagnosed by the following traits: angle of 35–40° between the main longitudinal axis of the head and the main axis of the autopalatine; thin tubular shape of the second ceratobranchial; presence of six or seven anal-fin rays; eyes dorsally placed on head; opercular and interopercular odontodes patches not juxtaposed; absence of a distal process on the hyomandibula; and presence of a long process on the anterior region of the hyomandibula. Potamoglanis is similar to the Tridentinae genera by the presence of a wide cranial fontanelle; presence of a short ventral process in the opercular bone and by the origin of the dorsal fin placed in a vertical through the anal-fin origin. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size | Smallest 16mm, largest 18mm, average 17mm, most commonly 18mm. All SL. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Species | There are 4 "species" in the database | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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