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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae
Etymology: Hypostomus: Greek, hypo = under + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335); delimai: Named for Flávio César Thadeo de Lima, Brazilian ichthyologist for his numerous contributions to Neotropical ichthyology.
Eponymy: Dr Flávio César Thadeo de Lima (d: 1974) is a Brazilian zoologist and ichthyologist who is a specialist in the systematics of freshwater Neotropical fish of the order Characiformes. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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South America: middle rio Tocantins-Araguaia basin in Brazil.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 25.3 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 93220)

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Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 5. Distinguished from all congeners, except Hypostomus carinatus (Steindachner, 1881), H. hoplonites Rapp Py-Daniel, 1988 and H. watwata Hancock, 1828, by having five to eight (mode seven) predorsal plates limiting the posterior border of the supraoccipital bone (vs. one to three plates). Can be diagnosed from Hypostomus carinatus, H. hoplonites, and H. watwata by having pale spots against darker ground color on body and fins (vs. dark spots against lighter ground color) (Ref. 93220).

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Occurs in rivers with turbid water, rocky and sandy substrate, and various remnant riparian vegetation. Sympatric with Squaliforma cf. emarginata (Valenciennes, 1840), Hypostomus faveolus, Hypostomus cf. plecostomus (Linnaeus, 1758), H. pyrineusi (Miranda Ribeiro, 1920), and another putative undescribed species of Hypostomus (Ref. 93220).

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Zawadzki, C.H., R.R. de Oliveira and T. Debona, 2013. A new species of Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Tocantins-Araguaia Basin, Brazil. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 11(1):73-80. (Ref. 93220)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 07 November 2018

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

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Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01096 (0.00500 - 0.02405), b=3.04 (2.84 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (21 of 100).

Hypostomus delimai Zawadzki, de Oliveira & Debona, 2013