Cetopsis oliveirai
Lundberg & Rapp Py-Daniel, 1994
dedicated José Carlos de Oliveira
Synonyms
Bathycetopsis oliveirai
Length (total)
approx. 6 cm
Standard length (documented)
36.0 mm
(Prefered) River depth
2.00 - 40.00 m
Locality
only in the main stream
Type of water
White water
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
arthropod (Arthropoda), Locusts (Orthoptera), ants (Formicidae), spider (Arachnida), diptera (Diptera)
Eats plants
not known
unknown
Not on the positive list of Brazil in 2012 : The positive list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 257
- Lundberg, J.G. & Rapp Py-Daniel, L., 1994 "Bathycetopsis oliveirai, Gen. et Sp. Nov., a Blind and Depigmented Catfish (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae) from the Brazilian Amazon" (Copeia, Vol. 1994 No. 2, P. 381)
- Vari, R.P.; Ferraris, C.J.Jr. & Pinna, M.C.C.de, 2005 "The Neotropical whale catfishes (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae: Cetopsinae), a revisionary study" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 3 No. 2, P. 179)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 132)
- Pinna, M.C.C. de, Ferraris, C.J.Jr. & Vari, R.P., 2007 "A phylogenetic study of the neotropical catfish family Cetopsidae (Osteichthyes, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a new classification" (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 150 No. 4, P. 804)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 110)
- DoNascimiento, C.; Herrera-Callazos, E.E.; Herrera-R., G.A.; Ortega-Lara, A.; Villa-Navarro, F.A.; Oviedo, J.S.U. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., 2017 "Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 20)
- Abrahão, V.P. & Pinna, M.C.C. de, 2018 "Cetopsis varii, a new species of whale catfish (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae) from the Meta Basin, Colombia" (abstract) (Journal of Fish Biology, Vol. 93 No. 1, P. 117)
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