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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae
Eponymy: Paul Planquette (1940–1996) was a native of French Guiana and worked at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Kourou. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

Issue
See Le Bail et al. (2000:244, fig.) for a complementary description with biological observations and geographical distribution, also Nijssen & Isbrücker (1990:tab. 1) and Muller & Isbrücker (1993:75) for morphological data of types.

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Freshwater; demersal. Tropical

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South America: Atlantic coastal drainages from Maroni to Kaw River basins in French Guiana.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 36713)

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Inhabits stony rivulets (Ref. 6868); has been collected in little forest tributaries (3 to 4 m wide) with shallow depth, rocky bottom, strong current, often with cascades. Likewise, during the dry season, it has been found in a split brook with very little water input, where only 2 species of Rivulus (R. igneus and R. cladophorus were present, thus suggesting that Lithoxus is a pioneer species which is capable of colonizing difficult environments which are nutritionally poor (Ref. 35381).

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Fisch-Muller, S., 2003. Loricariidae-Ancistrinae (Armored catfishes). p. 373-400. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 36713)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 19 October 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5010 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01738 (0.00936 - 0.03225), b=3.05 (2.90 - 3.20), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Paralithoxus planquettei (Boeseman, 1982)