Biology:Copionodon lianae

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Short description: Species of catfish

Copionodon lianae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Trichomycteridae
Genus: Copionodon
Species:
C. lianae
Binomial name
Copionodon lianae
Campanario & de Pinna, 2000

Copionodon lianae is a species of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae.[1] It is found in the Grisante River, a tributary of the Mucujê River, which is a tributary of the Paraguaçu River in Bahia, Brazil .[2] This species reaches a length of 6.2 cm (2.4 in). [3]

Etymology

The catfish is named in honor of ichthyologist Liana Figueiredo Mendes, of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, who collected the type specimens.[4]

References

  1. Campanario, C.M. and M.C.C. de Pinna, 2000. A new species of the primitive trichomycterid subfamily Copionodontinae from northeastern Brazil (Teleostei: Trichomycteridae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 11(4):369-375.
  2. Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types". Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1. http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf. 
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Copionodon lianae" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. "Order SILURIFORMES: Families DIPLOMYSTIDAE, CETOPSIDAE, TRICHOMYCTERIDAE and NEMATOGENYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/siluriformes1/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q6431912 entry