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Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae
Etymology: Hypostomus: Greek, hypo = under + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335); bimbai: Named for José Manoel dos Reis Machado (1899-1974), the mestre Bimba. Mestre [master] is the higher hierarchical category of the Brazilian fighting sport Capoeira..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; demersal; depth range ? - 30 m (Ref. 124776). Tropical
South America: Brazil.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 31.4 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 124776)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 4. This species is distinguished from all its congeners, except H. microstomus, H. margaritifer, H. roseopunctatus by the following set of characters: a few teeth on upper jaw (23-39 per premaxilla) and the pale dots over body (vs. having either larger number of teeth and/or dark spots on body); differs microstomus, roseopunctatus by having 23-39 slender teeth per premaxilla (vs. robust premaxillary teeth, 8-14 in microstomus and 6-16 in roseopunctatus); differs from H. margaritifer by having slender premaxillary teeth (vs. robust), by having a stouter body, head depth 68.1-75.1 % HL (vs. 52.6-66.7% HL), and by having the dorsal-fin spine shorter, its length similar to head length - dorsal-fin spine 57.9-84.9 % of predorsal length (vs. dorsal-fin spine clearly longer than head length and usually almost similar to predorsal length-dorsal-fin spine 71.4-111.1 % of predorsal length) (Ref. 124776).
Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Collected at the depth of approximately 30 meters over rocky bottom in areas with slow water flow (Ref. 124776).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Zawadzki, C.H. and I. de Souza Penido, 2021. Hypostomus bimbai and H. pastinhai two new depth-sheltered species of Hypostomus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the lower Rio São Francisco basin, Brazil. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 2021. (Ref. 124776)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00450 - 0.02327), b=3.04 (2.84 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Resilience (Ref.
120179): Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (28 of 100).