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Nemacheilidae (Brook loaches)
Etymology: Claea: Named for the Oreiad nymph of a sacred cave on Mount Kalathion in Messenia.
Eponymy: In Greek mythology, Claea was a nymph of a sacred cave on Mount Kalathion in Messenia in the Peloponnese. Kottelat chose this nymph’s name to replace another ‘nymph’ name – Oreias Sauvage, 1874 – which name was pre-occupied. Claude-Philibert Dabry de Thiersant (1826–1898) was French consul at Hankow (one of the three cities whose merging formed modern-day Wuhan, China) and an amateur naturalist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Sauvage.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Subtropical
Asia: Jinshajiang River basin, China.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 9.9 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 7410)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Distinguished by the following characters: mouth arched; upper lip smooth and with a deep median notch; lower lip with a median notch and two furrows on each side; processus dentiformis present and well developed; no incision in lower jaw; anterior nostril pierced in the front side of a tube; intestine with a bend at some distance behind stomach; lateral line complete, extending to caudal base; anus is situated about 1.0-1.5 eye diameters in front of anal fin origin; caudal fin slightly forked; 3-4 predorsal, 2 subdorsal and 4-5 postdorsal brown saddles on the back; body side with irregular dark brown blotches; dorsal fin with dark spots and caudal fin with irregular vertical rows of spots on rays; posterior chamber of air-bladder absent (Ref. 7410).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Kottelat, M., 2010. Claea, a new replacement name for Oreias Sauvage, 1874 (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 21(4):384. (Ref. 86550)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01072 (0.00588 - 0.01953), b=3.01 (2.85 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 2.7 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
