Cetopsis sandrae
Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005
dedicated Sandra J. Raredon (National Museum
of Natural History)
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 10 cm
Standard length (documented)
75.0 mm
Habitat river width
3.00 - 4.00 m
(Prefered) River depth
0.40 - 0.80 m
Locality
in/near rapids, near small waterfall(s)
Flow
strong
On the riverbank
forest
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
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
- 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. 195)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 133)
- 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)
- 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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