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Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae
Etymology: Ancistrus: Greek, agkistron = hook (Ref. 45335); galani: Named for Carlos Galan.
Eponymy: Carlos Alberto Galán (d: 1949) is a Basque (Spanish) speleologist and biologist whose base is the Bio-speleology Laboratory, Aranzadi Science Society, Alto de Zorroaga, San Sebastián, Spain. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Issue
Known from two specimens only.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; acqua dolce benthopelagico. High altitude; 11°N - 10°N
South America: Los Laureles Cave in Socuy River basin, Lake Maracaibo drainage, Venezuela.
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.6 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 36713)
Short description
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Spine dorsali (totale) : 1; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 7 - 8; Spine anali: 1; Raggi anali molli: 4. Reduced ocular orbits (orbital diameter with a ratio 10.1 to 12.4 times the head length); absent or atrophied eye balls; body unpigmented. Depressed head; naked anterior portion of mouth, belly and breast; lips papillated; a reduced barbel at corners of the mouth; no dermal cirri in the snout; hooked preopercular spines, 13-16, the longest is 3.11-4.28 times smaller than the interorbital length; 3 unkeeled plates bordering the supraoccipital posteriorly, the middle not divided in the midline. Body depressed and caudal fin convex with lower lobe longest.
Facultative or obligate air-breathing (Ref. 126274)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Proudlove, G.S., 1998. Checklist of cave-dwelling fishes of the world, to 1998. Unpublished. (Ref. 27299)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Pesca: di nessun interesse
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01479 (0.00633 - 0.03455), b=2.99 (2.81 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Resilienza (Ref.
120179): Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).