undescribed species
[Baskin unpublished in Lundberg and Rapp Py Daniel 1994]
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Note
This species does not appear to have been described. It is mentioned in Lundberg and Rapp Py Daniel (1994) as follows:
"Baskin reported an un-described eyeless and pigmentless Hoplomyzon (Aspredinidae) collected in bottom trawls at about 15m in the lower Orinoco mainstem near Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela (paper, without published abstract, read at 1978 meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Orono, Maine). Collected near the blind aspredinid were a few specimens of the tiny trichomycterid species Pygidianops eigenmanni and Typhlobelus ternetzi"
Synonyms
None.
Country
Venezuela: freshwaterTypes
This species has not been described and there are no types.
Distribution
The lower Orinoco mainstem near Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela.
Conservation Status
[NE]
Museum Holdings
None known.
Key References
| Stewart, D.J. | Journal Article | 1985 | A review of the south American catfish tribe Hoplomyzontini (Pisces, Aspredinidae), with descriptions of new species from Ecuador |
| Lundberg, J.G. and Rapp Py-Daniel, L. | Journal Article | 1994 | Bathycetopsis oliveira gen. et sp. nov., a blind and depigmented catfish (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae) from the Brazilian Amazon |
| Carvalho, T.P., Arce H., M., Reis, R.E. and Sabaj, M.H. | Journal Article | 2018 | Molecular phylogeny of Banjo catfishes (Ostaryophisi: Siluriformes: Aspredinidae): A continental radiation in South American freshwaters |
| 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 |