rio Poti / rio Puty → rio Parnaíba (⪪) → Atlantic NE (⪪)

Country

Brazil

Region

Piauí, Ceará

Length

538 km

General direction

NW 296.99°

Starts near

 

 

Quiterianópolis

˜[ -6.055,-40.833 ]

Tributaries
(Without claiming to be exhaustive):

Sorting
up/down

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⊗

[ -5.649,-42.306 ]

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⊗

[ -5.041,-40.898 ]

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[ -5.093,-40.759 ]

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⊗

riacho da Formosa (⪪)

[ -5.249,-42.681 ]

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[ -5.093,-40.759 ]

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río Piau (⪪)

[ -4.973,-41.239 ]

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riacho Riachão do Natal (⪪)

[ -5.423,-42.520 ]

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río Sambito (⪪)

[ -5.651,-42.158 ]

Ends near

Teresina

Flows in

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[ -5.034,-42.839 ]

Fishes of rio Poti / rio Puty
(Without claiming to be exhaustive)

Species
Country
Origin

Length
(cm)

AQ
(cm)

T.
(°C)

Bree
ding

Ageneiosus inermis
Linnaeus, 1766
 
Southamerica without Chile
Amazonas-, rio Solimões-, río Paraná-, río Orinoco-Einzug, río Manapiare, río Paraguay
(Amazonas (BRA), Amazonas (VEN), Pará (BRA), Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Loreto, Tocantins, Rondônia, Meta, Sipaliwini, Coronie, Saramacca, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Upper Demerara-Berbice, Pataro-Siparuni, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Beni, Santa Cruz)

65

250

25 - 30

unknown

Auchenipterus menezesi
Ferraris & Vari, 1999
 
Brazil
rio Parnaíba, rio Pindaré-Mirim, lagoa de Parnagua, rio Puty = rio Poti
(Maranhão, Piauí)

15

100

 

unknown

Hassar affinis
Steindachner, 1881
 
Brazil
Rio Puty = rio Poti, rio Paranaiba-Einzug, rio Turiaçu, rio Itapecuru, rio Pindaré-Mearim
(Piauí, Maranhão)

27

150

 

unknown

Hypostomus johnii
Steindachner, 1877
 
Brazil
Rio Poti, rio Parnaíba, rio Quilombo, rio Sambito, rio Guaribas, rio Longá, rio Jacaraí; rio Preto
(Piauí, Maranhão, Ceará, Bahia)

20

120

25 - 29

unknown

Hypostomus pusarum
Starks, 1913
 
Brazil
Rio Mirim, Küstenflüsse Nordbrasiliens
(Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Piauí, Pernambuco, Alagoas)

25

150

 

unknown

Pimelodella steindachneri
Eigenmann, 1917
 
Bolivia, Brazil
Amazonas-Einzug, Manacapurú, rio Madeira, rio Puty
(Amazonas (BRA), Pará (BRA), Piauí)

22

150

 

unknown

Pterygoplichthys parnaibae
Glyptoperichthys parnaibae
Weber, 1991
 
Brazil
Lagoa de Parnaguá, rio Paraim, rio Parnaíba, rio Poti
(Piauí, Maranhão, Bahia)

50

200

25 - 30

Amazonas 1/2018 in Brazil

7  entries found.

Many thanks to

for the pictures

The Field Museum - Michael W. Littmann (CC BY-NC 4.0)

2

Steindachner, Franz (1882) (PD)

3

Ramos, Zawadzki, da Costa Ramos, Britski (CC BY 4.0)

4

S.Y. Lustosa-Costa, T.P.A. Ramos, C.H. Zawadzki & S.M.Q. Lima (CC BY 4.0)

5

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

6

Daniel Genghis Khan

7

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