Biology:Farlowella
Farlowella is a genus of fish in the family Loricariidae native to South America. This genus is broadly distributed in Amazon, Orinoco, Paraná and coastal rivers of the Guyana Shield. It is absent from the Pacific slope of the Andes and from the coastal rivers of the Brazilian Shield.[1] Many of these species are kept in aquariums. This genus has a unique body shape that resembles a thin stick of wood. The body is slender and elongate, often with a pronounced rostrum and a brownish color with two lateral dark stripes beginning at the tip of the rostrum, passing over the eyes and ending at the tail, which are periodically interrupted on the caudal peduncle.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus is placed within the tribe Harttiini of the subfamily Loricariinae. Morphological, molecular and phylogenetic studies have placed Farlowella as sister to Sturisoma.[1] The genus name of Farlowella is named in honor of William Gilson Farlow, a famous American botanist of Harvard University whose main work was working with algae plants, the favorite food of this slender catfish.[2]
Species
There are currently 31 recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Farlowella acus (Kner, 1853)
- Farlowella altocorpus Retzer, 2006
- Farlowella amazonum (Günther, 1864)
- Farlowella azpelicuetae Terán, Ballen, Alonso, Aguilera & Mirande, 2019
- Farlowella curtirostra G. S. Myers, 1942
- Farlowella gianetii Ballen, Pastana & L. A. W. Peixoto, 2016[4]
- Farlowella gladiolus (Günther, 1864)
- Farlowella gracilis Regan, 1904
- Farlowella guarani Delgadillo, Maldonado, & Carvajal-Vallejos, 2021a
- Farlowella hahni Meinken, 1937
- Farlowella hasemani C. H. Eigenmann & Vance, 1917
- Farlowella henriquei A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1918
- Farlowella isbruckeri Retzer & Page, 1997
- Farlowella jauruensis C. H. Eigenmann & Vance, 1917[4]
- Farlowella knerii (Steindachner, 1882)
- Farlowella mariaelenae Martín Salazar, 1964
- Farlowella martini Fernández-Yépez, 1972
- Farlowella mitoupibo Ballen, Urbano-Bonilla & Zamudio, 2016[5]
- Farlowella myriodon (Isbrücker, Britski, Nijssen & Ortega, 1983)[2]
- Farlowella nattereri Steindachner, 1910
- Farlowella odontotumulus Retzer & Page, 1997
- Farlowella oxyrryncha (Kner, 1853)
- Farlowella paraguayensis Retzer & Page, 1997
- Farlowella reticulata Boeseman, 1971
- Farlowella rugosa Boeseman, 1971
- Farlowella schreitmuelleri C. G. E. Ahl, 1937
- Farlowella smithi Fowler, 1913
- Farlowella taphorni Retzer & Page, 1997
- Farlowella venezuelensis Martín Salazar, 1964
- Farlowella vittata G. S. Myers, 1942
- Farlowella wuyjugu Dopazo, Wosiacki & Britto, 2023
- Farlowella yarigui Ballen & Mojica, 2014[6]
- Synonyms
- Farlowella colombiensis Retzer & Page, 1997; valid as F. acus
- Farlowella platorynchus Retzer & Page, 1997; valid as F. amazonum
Notes
a.^ Published electronically, without Zoobank registration
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Covain, R.; Fisch-Muller, S. (2007). "The genera of the Neotropical armored catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): a practical key and synopsis". Zootaxa 1462: 1–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1462.1.1. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01462p040.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamily LORICARIINAE Rafinesque 1815 (Suckermouth Armored Catfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/loricariinae/.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Species in the genus Farlowella". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=species&genus=Farlowella.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ballen, G.A.; Pastana, M.N.L.; Peixoto, L.A.W. (2016). "A new species of Farlowella (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) of the F. nattereri species-group from the rio Xingu basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with comments on Farlowella jauruensis, a poorly-known species from the upper rio Paraguai basin". Neotropical Ichthyology 14 (3). doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20160046. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252016000300215&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en.
- ↑ Ballen, G.A.; Urbano-Bonilla, A.; Zamudio, J.E. (2016). "Farlowella mitoupibo, a new species of stick catfish from the upper Guaviare River, Orinoco basin, Colombia (Teleostei: Loricariidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 27 (4): 325–332. http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/ief27_4_05.pdf.
- ↑ Ballen, G.A.; Mojica, J.I. (2014). "A new trans-Andean Stick Catfish of the genus Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with the first record of the genus for the río Magdalena Basin in Colombia". Zootaxa 3765 (2): 134–142. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.2. PMID 24870891. http://www.stri.si.edu/sites/publications/PDFs/Ballen_Mojica2014-A_new_trans-Andean_StickCatfish_ofthe_Genus.pdf.
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