Hyphessobrycon balbus
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Quick facts
Difficulty3 of 6 measures
More bars, more demanding.
- Space
- any tank
- Water
- unknown
- Temp
- unknown
- Temperament
- unknown
- Social
- shoal
- Compatibility
- community tank
Known only from headwaters of the upper Paraná river basin in the Federal District plus the neighbouring state of Goiás, central Brazil. Type locality is 'Planaltina, Lagoa Fervedeira, Goiás, Brazil' with additional records existing mostly from the rio São Bartolomeu including the Bananal, Santa Maria-Torto and Gama tributary systems.
Etymology
Hyphessobrycon: from the Ancient Greek υπελάσσων (hyphesson), meaning 'of lesser stature', and used as a prefix in this case, plus the generic name Brycon.
balbus: from the Latin balbus, meaning 'stuttering', in reference to the incomplete lateral line in this species which is described as 'stuttering' in its description.
Distribution
Known only from headwaters of the upper Paraná river basin in the Federal District plus the neighbouring state of Goiás, central Brazil.
Type locality is 'Planaltina, Lagoa Fervedeira, Goiás, Brazil' with additional records existing mostly from the rio São Bartolomeu including the Bananal, Santa Maria-Torto and Gama tributary systems.
Habitat
At the localities listed in 'Distribution' H. balbus was collected alongside a number of other species including Steindachnerina insculpta, Characidium gomesi, C. xanthopterum, C. zebra, Bryconamericus stramineus, Knodus moenkhausii, Hasemania sp., Astyanax sp., Aspidoras fuscoguttatus, Neoplecostomus corumba, Hypostomus ancistroides, Rhamdia quelen, Rivulus pictus, Phalloceros harpagos, Poecilia reticulata (introduced) and Cichlasoma paranaense.
References
- Aquino, P. P. U. and T. Belisário d`Araújo Couto (2010). Pisces, Teleostei, Characiformes, Characidae, Hasemania crenuchoides Zarske and Géry, 1999, Hyphessobrycon balbus Myers, 1927 and Oligosarcus planaltinae Menezes and Géry, 1983: New records in Distrito Federal, Central Brazil. Checklist 6(4), 594-595
- Myers, G. S. (1927). Descriptions of new South American fresh-water fishes collected by Dr. Carl Ternetz. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 68(3), 107-135
- Calcagnotto, D., S. A. Schaefer, and R. DeSalle (2005). Relationships among characiform fishes inferred from analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36(1), 135-153
- Reis, R. E., S. O. Kullander and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds) (2003). Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America. CLOFFSCA. EDIPUCRS, Porto Alegre, i-xi + 1-729
- Oliveira, C. A., G. S. Avellino, K. T. Abe, T. C. Mariguela, R. C. Benine, G. Orti, R. P. Vari, and R. M. Corrêa e Castro (2011). Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11(1), 275-300
- de Carvalho, F. R. (2011). Sistemática de Hyphessobrycon Durbin, 1908 (Ostariophysi: Characidae). unpublished PHD Thesis, i-xxiii + 1-365
- Aquino, P. P. U., M. Schneider, M. J. M. Silva, C. P. Fonseca, H. B. Arakawa and D. R. Cavalcanti (2009). Ictiofauna dos córregos do Parque Nacional de Brasília, bacia do Alto Rio Paraná, Distrito Federal, Brasil Central. Biota Neotropica 9(1), 217-230
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