Common names:
[No common name]
Occurrence:
native
Salinity:
freshwater
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Aquaculture:
never/rarely
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no regulations
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Uses:
no uses
Comments:
Type locality of Trichomycterus rosablanca, Santander, El Peñón, Las Sardinas Cave, Las Sardinas Creek, tributary of Horta River, Carare River drainage, Magdalena River basin. It is known known exclusively from this stream tributary, draining the caves Las Sardinas and Caracol, in the upper Carare River drainage, corresponding to the middle Magdalena River basin (Ref. 119411).
National Checklist:
Country Information:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/co.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences:
OccurrencesPoint map
Main Ref:
Mesa, LM., C.A. Lasso, L.E. Ochoa and C. DoNascimiento, 2018
National Database:
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); rosablanca:Named for the Rosablanca karstic formation where the type locality is found..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
