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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Scoloplacidae (Spiny dwarf catfishes)
Etymology: Scoloplax: Greek, skoloplax = a thorned plate (Ref. 45335); baileyi: Named for Dr. Reeve M. Bailey (1911-2011), for his remarkable contributions to ichthyology including the description of the genus Scoloplax and its type species, S. dicra.
Eponymy: Dr Reeve Maclaren Bailey (1911–2011) was an American ichthyologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic; depth range 0 - 2 m (Ref. 92919). Tropical

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South America: Brazil.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 1.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 92919)

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Found in Rio Unini basin, in mid-sized streams within dense forest vegetation and these streams are blackwater throughout most of the year. During the dry season, some streams carry a small amount of sediment and present higher pH and conductivity values. Substrate consists of sand and silt and collections done using handnets sweeping stream bottom in depths that ranged from 0.4 to 1.5 meters. Stream temperature varied from 24.8 °C to 26.7 °C, pH from 5.2 to 6.5, conductivity from 8.8 to 18.6 µS/cm, and dissolved oxygen from 1.07 to 6.68 mg/l. Also collected together with this species are at least 40 species, including other undescribed species, from different taxonomic groups (Ref. 92919).

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Rocha, M., H. Lazzarotto and L.H. Rapp Py-Daniel, 2012. A new species of Scoloplax with a remarkable new tooth morphology within Loricarioidea (Siluriformes: Scoloplacidae). Copeia 2012(4):670-677. (Ref. 92919)

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

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

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5312 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.0 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

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

Scoloplax baileyi Rocha, Lazzarotto & Py-Daniel, 2012