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Hirtella carinata Pereira, Zanata, Cetra & Reis, 2014

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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Comments: Recorded from four localities in small rivers and creeks, tributaries to the Rio Panelão, itself a tributary to the lower Rio Pardo drainage, near the town of Camacan in southern Bahia State (Ref. 97864).
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Main Ref: Pereira, E.H., A. Zanata, M. Cetra and R.E. Reis, 2014
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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) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypoptopomatinae
Etymology: Hirtella: From the Latin 'hirtus', meaning hairy, in reference to the bristle-like hypertrophied odontodes which distinguish the mature males of this species from conspecific females and from all other loricariids.;  carinata: Named from the Latin adjective carina, meaning keel, ridge, in reference to the elongate keel of azygous plates at mid-dorsal line, between dorsal and caudal fins..

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

Freshwater; demersal.   Tropical

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