Issue
No recent description. It is a slender species with a narrow black stripe across the body just above the middle and a reddish color in life (color photo, Ramiro Barriga). It appears to be limited to streams above 250 m elevation in northern tributaries of the Amazon River in Ecuador and Peru. It is not recorded from streams nearby in Colombia. Eschmeyer, 1998:522, Stewart, Barriga S, Ibarra, 1987:21; Ortega and Vari, 1986:10.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; acqua dolce demersale. Tropical
South America: Amazon side of the Andes above 250 m elevation in Ecuador and Peru.
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 14.3 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 37104)
Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Weitzman, M. and S.H. Weitzman, 2003. Lebiasinidae (Pencil fishes). p. 241-251. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 37104)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00891 (0.00423 - 0.01877), b=3.00 (2.81 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.6 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).