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Teleostei (teleosts) > Characiformes (Characins) > Characidae (Characins; tetras) > Spintherobolinae
Eponymy: Rolf Brocca of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was an aquarium-fish collector. He collected the holoype. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Myers.

Issue
Redescription and relationships in Weitzman & Malabarba (1999).

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Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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South America: Brazil in lowlands around and to the east and west of the Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro and lowlands around Santos, São Paulo.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 2.6 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 37055)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Anal soft rays: 16 - 20; Vertebrae: 32 - 34. Lacks infraorbital bone3; the relatively high counts of anal-fin ray (13-16) and ventral procurrent caudal fin ray count (14-17) for S. broccae relative to all other species of Spintherobolus appears autapomorphic for this species.

Inhabits dark-brown swamp waters. Appears to be found in somewhat acid waters in relatively lowland areas, in both swamps and slow moving streams, but only in areas where the streams remain unpolluted.

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Weitzman, S.H. and L.R. Malabarba, 1999. Systematics of Spintherobolus (Teleostei: Characidae: Cheirodontinae) from eastern Brazil. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 10(1):1-43. (Ref. 32783)

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

Endangered (EN) (B2ab(iii,iv)); Date assessed: 07 November 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5625 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00244 - 0.04107), b=3.04 (2.81 - 3.27), 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

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

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

Spintherobolus broccae Myers, 1925