Egg-eater Banjo
Amaralia oviraptor Friel & Carvalho, 2016
Also calledBagre-banjo-glutão (por)
First described in: Friel, J. P.; Carvalho, T. P. (2016). A new species of Amaralia Fowler (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae) from the Paraná-Paraguay River Basin. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4088(4): 531-546.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
new species from the Paraguay and Paraná basins info published in Friel & Carvalho (2016)
CLOFFAR - update 5 - supplement to Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of Argentina.
description
new species from the Paraguay and Paraná basins info published in Friel & Carvalho (2016)
CLOFFAR - update 3 - supplement to Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of Argentina.
biology_ecology
Biological data. Lives in the bottom of lagoons, and feeds both on eggs and developing embryos of other catfishes (Friel, 1994; 2003).
Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated
description
Body depressed anteriorly, compressed posteriorly; greatest depth contained 6.5 to 10, caudal peduncle depth 9.1 to 10.5 and body width 4.0 to 4.5 times in SL; snout length 3.1 to 4.3, horizontal orbital diameter 7.8 to 14.3 and least interorbital width 2.6 to 3.9 in HL. Mouth subterminal. Dorsal fin with I, 2 rays, pectoral fin with I, 5 or 6 rays, pelvic fin with 6 rays and anal fin with 5 or 6 rays (Friel, Carvalho, 2016). Ground color brown; series of light-beige spots on distal portions of tubercles; fins dark-brown with light-beige distal margins. Maximum standard length. 122.8 mm.
Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8119948.