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Trichomycterus igobi Wosiacki, de & Pinna, 2008

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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Known from the lower rio rio Jordão, close to its mouth on rio Iguaçu, rio Paraná drainage in southern Brazil (Ref. 75005).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Wosiacki, W.B. and M. de Pinna, 2008
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Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes) > Trichomycterinae
Etymology: Trichomycterus: Greek, thrix = hair + Greek, mykter, -eros = nose (Ref. 45335);  igobi: The specific name is based on a mythological character of the Tupi-Guarani Indian legend about the origin of the Iguaçu waterfalls..

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

Freshwater; demersal.   Tropical

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