Microglanis robustus • Pseudopimelodidae • Cat-eLog

Cat-eLog Data Sheet
Scientific Name	**Microglanis robustus** Ruiz & Shibatta, 2010
Common Name(s)	None
Type Locality	Rio Tocantins, in small rapids below the municipal district of Jatobal, Tucurí, Pará, Brazil.
Etymology	Micro - small, glanis - catfish - in reference to the rather small forms of catfish that this genus contains.
Species Information
Size	23mm (0.9") SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
Identification	The genus Microglanis was described by Eigenmann (1912) to include small pimelodids with the head as wide as long, the skull covered by skin only; the occipital crest small; frontal fontanel not extending much if any behind the eye, and a minute occipital fontanel sometimes present; eye without a free orbital margin; dorsal and pectoral spines well developed; and premaxillary patches of teeth without backward projecting angles.
Habitat Information
Distribution	Rio Tocantins, Pará, Brazil. Amazon, Lower Amazon, Tocantins (click on these areas to find other species found there) (Click the map-icon to show/hide map of species distribution)
Further Information
References	Zootaxa No. 2632, pp56, Figs. 1-3. (Article in link is not free).
Registered Keepers	None.
Breeding Reports	None.
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Last Update	2013 Feb 20 10:51 (species record created: 2011 Sep 19 16:40)

Cat-eLog Data Sheet

Scientific Name

Microglanis robustus Ruiz & Shibatta, 2010

Common Name(s)

None

Type Locality

Rio Tocantins, in small rapids below the municipal district of Jatobal, Tucurí, Pará, Brazil.

Etymology

Micro - small, glanis - catfish - in reference to the rather small forms of catfish that this genus contains.

Species Information

Size

23mm (0.9") SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.

Identification

The genus Microglanis was described by Eigenmann (1912) to include small pimelodids with the head as wide as long, the skull covered by skin only; the occipital crest small; frontal fontanel not extending much if any behind the eye, and a minute occipital fontanel sometimes present; eye without a free orbital margin; dorsal and pectoral spines well developed; and premaxillary patches of teeth without backward projecting angles.

Habitat Information

Distribution

Rio Tocantins, Pará, Brazil.
Amazon, Lower Amazon, Tocantins (click on these areas to find other species found there)