Trichomycterus areolatus
Valenciennes, 1846
Synonyms
Trichomycterus maculatus
Trichomycterus marmoratus
Trichomycterus pallens
Trichomycterus tigrinus
Trichomycterus marmoratus
Trichomycterus pallens
Trichomycterus tigrinus
data deficient
Length (total)
approx. 12 cm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
Río San Jago
Santiago
Chile
Río Mapocho ? ➙ río Maipo ➙ Pacific
˜[ -33.530,-70.804 ]
Eats plants
not known
unknown
8 soft rays
14 soft rays
slightly incised / concave
13 soft rays
8 soft rays
5 soft rays
14 soft rays
slightly incised / concave
13 soft rays
8 soft rays
5 soft rays
not known
- Ruiz, V.H. & Berra, T.M., 1994 "Fishes of the High Biobio River of south-central Chile with notes on diet and speculations on the origin of the ichthyofauna" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters) P. 14
- de Pinna, M.C.C., 1998 "Phylogenetic relationships of neotropical Siluriformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi): historical overview and synthesis of hypotheses" (Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fishes) P. 297
- Fernández, L.A., 2000 "A new species of Trichomycterus from northwestern Argentina (Ostariophysi: Trichomycteridae)" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters) P. 352
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 279
- Valenciennes, 1846 "Des Éspces ou Lucioïdes" (Histoire naturelle des poissons, Vol. 18, P. 492)
- Schulze, T.T.; Ali, J.; Bartlett, M.; McFarland, M.M.; Clement, E.; Won, H.; Sanford, A.; Monzingo, E.; Martens,M.C.; Hemsley,R.M.; Kumar, S.; Gouin, N.; Kolok,A.S. & Davis,P., 2016 "De novo Assembly and Analysis of the Chilean Pencil Catfish Trichomycterus areolatus Transcriptome" (Journal of Genomics, Vol. 4, P. 29)
- García-Melo, L.J.; Villa-Navarro, F.A. & DoNascimiento, 2016 "A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the upper río Magdalena basin, Colombia" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4117, P. 237)
- Colihueque, N.; Corrales, O. & Yañez, M., 2017 "Morphological analysis of Trichomycterus areolatus Valenciennes, 1846 from southern Chilean rivers using a truss-based system (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae)" (ZooKeys, Vol. 695, P. 135)
- Ochoa, L.E.; Silva, G.S.C.; Silva, G.J.C.; Oliveira, C. & Datovo, A. , 2017 "New species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) lacking pelvic fins from Paranapanema basin, southeastern Brazil" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4319 No. 3, P. 557)
- Mesa, L.M.S.; Öassp. C.A.; Ochoa, L.E. & DoNascimiento, C., 2018 "Trichomycterus rosablanca (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) a new species of hipogean catfish from the Colombian Andes" (Biota Colombiana, Vol. 19 no. 1, P. 110)
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