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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypoptopomatinae
Etymology: Hypoptopoma: Greek, hypo = under + Greek, optoma, opsomai = to look at, to watch + Greek, poma = cover, operculum (Ref. 45335); baileyi: Named for Reeve M. Bailey (1911-2000).
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. Tropical

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South America: Río Iténez, in the upper Rio Madeira basin, along the border between Bolivia and Brazil.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 4.4 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 84367)

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Vertebrae: 27 - 28. This species is distinguished from all congeners except H. muzuspi by having a trunk pigmentation in the form of a lateral band that is progressively darker along medial, midventral, and ventral series of plates, and a caudal-fin pigmentation pattern formed by 6-8 narrow dark brown bars and a dark spot at the base of the lower lobe. It differs from H. muzuspi by having a reduced preopercle, not reaching hyomandibular-opercle condyle (vs. preopercle not reduced, reaching to hyomandibular-opercle condyle) and the absence of canal in preopercle (vs. presence of canal in the preopercle) (Ref. 84367).

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

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Aquino, A.E. and S.A. Schaefer, 2010. Systematics of the genus Hypoptopoma Günther, 1868 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 336:1-110. (Ref. 84367)

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

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 27 July 2023

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5001 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00851 (0.00374 - 0.01935), b=3.09 (2.90 - 3.28), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 2.3 ±0.1 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

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

Hypoptopoma baileyi Aquino & Schaefer, 2010