Metadata

Copionodon undescribed species Igatu

[Trajano and Bichuette 2007]

ORDERSUB-ORDERFAMILY
SiluriformesLoricarioideiTrichomycteridae

Synonyms

None.

Country

Brazil

Types

This species has not yet been described and there are no types.

Distribution

Chapada Diamantina, Municipio de Andarai, Provoado de Igatu, Gruna dos Torras, rio Paraguacu drainage, Bahia, Brazil. 12o52’40.4”S, 41o18’43.3”W.

Habitat

Coexists with the troglobitic fish Glaphyropoma spinosum. Chapada Diamantina is a large plataeu area in eastern Brazil in which the cave are developed in quartzite, not limestone.

Systematics

This species, together with the troglobitic Glaphyropoma spinosum, the epigean Glaphyropoma rodriguesi de Pinna 1992 and four epigean species of Copionodon, forms the monophyletic subfamily Copionodontinae. This subfamily is restricted to Chapada Diamantina and is the most basal clade in the Trichomycteridae.

Conservation Status

[NE]

Key References

de Pinna, M.C.C. Journal Article 1992 A new subfamily of Trichomycteridae (Teleostei, Siluriformes), lower locarioid relationships and a discussion on the impact of additional taxa for phylogenetic analysis
Campanario, C.M. and de Pinna, M.C.C. Journal Article 2000 A new species of the primitive trichomycterid subfamily Copionodontinae from northeastern Brazil (Teleostei: Trichomycteridae)
Bichuette, M.E., de Pinna, M.C.C. and Trajano, E. Journal Article 2008 A new species of Glaphyropoma: the first subterranean copionodontine catfish and the first occurrence of opercular odontodes in the subfamily (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
Rantin, B. and Bichuette, M.E. Journal Article 2013 Phototactic behaviour of suberranean Copionodoninae Pinna 1992 catfishes (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from Chapada Diamantina, central Bahia, northeastern Brazil
Zanata, A. M. and Primitivo, C. Journal Article 2014 Natural history of Copionodon pecten, an endemic trichomycterid catfish from Chapada Diamantina in northeastern Brazil
Gallão, J.E. and Bichuette, M.E. Journal Article 2015 Taxonomic distinctness and conservation of a new high biodiversity subterranean area in Brazil
Rantin, B. and Bichuette, M. E. Journal Article 2015 Spontaneous behaviour of basal Copionodontinae cave catfishes from Brazil (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
de Pinna, M., Burger, R. and Zanata, A.M. Journal Article 2018 A new species of Copionodon lacking a free orbital rim (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
de Pinna, M., Abrahão, V., Reis, V. and Zanata, A. Journal Article 2018 A new species of Copionodon representing a relictual occurrence of the Copionodontinae (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), with a CT-scan imaging survey of key subfamilial features
Rantin, B. and Bichuette, M.E. Journal Article 2019 Territoriality and agonistic behavior of subterranean Copionodontinae catfish (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from Brazil
Bichuette, M.E. and Gallão, J.E. Journal Article 2021 Under the surface: what we know about the threats to subterranean fishes in Brazil
Bichuette, M.E. Journal Article 2021 Ecologia de peixes de riachos de cavernas e outros habitat subterrâneos