Tatia strigata Soares-Porto, 1995
Tatia strigata
photo by Sneegas, G.W.

Family:  Auchenipteridae (Driftwood catfishes), subfamily: Centromochlinae
Max. size:  11.68 cm SL (male/unsexed)
Environment:  benthopelagic; freshwater
Distribution:  South America: Central Amazon River basin, Negro River and Casiquiare Channel.
Diagnosis:  Dorsal spines (total): 1-1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 4-5; Anal soft rays: 9-10; Vertebrae: 29-30. Distinguished from all congeners by having a completely striped color pattern, bearing whitish elongate longitudinal irregular stripes along lateral sides of body. Adult male with a unique arrangement of modified anal fin, with the second unbranched anal-fin ray with anterior enlarged segments and a notch formed by the reduction of the second and third branched rays. Additional features useful to separate this species from all congeners include: pectoral-fin with four branched rays; 7 ribs; vertebrae 29-30; and upper caudal-fin lobe slightly elongated in mature males, same length in females (Ref. 79512). Description: A iii,6-7; V i+5. Post-Weberian vertebrae (Ref. 79512).
Biology:  Collected in an igarape of rivers, hidden in submerged trunk. Feeds mainly on juvenile and adult insects.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC); Date assessed: 19 August 2020 Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless


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