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Lasiancistrus heteracanthus (Günther, 1869)

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae
Etymology: Lasiancistrus: Greek, lasios, -a, -on = hairy + Greek, agkistron = hook (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Günther.

Issue
New combination with designation as type species of the genus by Eigenmann (1910:409); see complementary descriptions based on holotype (only specimen known) by Regan (1904:237), and by Nijssen & Isbrücker (1985:246) with comparison to Lasiancistrus scolymus.

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

Freshwater; demersal. Tropical

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South America: upper río Napo of Ecuador and the lower río Napo of Peru.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.3 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 36713)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

This species can be distinguished from L. caucanus, L. saetiger, and L. tentaculatus by having abdominal plates (vs. absent), from L. schomburgkii and L. saetiger by having dark spots in the dorsal and caudal fins (vs. white spots or all dark); and from L. guacharote by not having the abdominal plates restricted to a region near the insertion of the pectoral-fin spine (Ref. 56920).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274)

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Fisch-Muller, Sonia | Collaborators

Armbruster, J.W., 2005. The loricariid catfish genus Lasiancistrus (Siluriformes) with descriptions of two new species. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 3(4):549-569. (Ref. 56920)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 April 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5156   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01514 (0.00712 - 0.03216), b=2.97 (2.80 - 3.14), 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 (10 of 100).