Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal soft rays: 6. With 16-21 premaxillary and 13-18 dentary teeth on each jaw element; 2 or more series of ventrally downturned odontodes on anteroventral rostral margin; supraoccipital odontode crests short, low, orbit small, diameter less than infraorbital depth; abdomen with 2-3 paired lateral plates; pair of preanal platelets preceded by 2 or more additional platelets, with small naked areas between platelets; unbranched caudal-fin rays banded; large brown blotch on median caudal-fin rays, two dark brown oblique bars on caudal fin.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Siluriformes

Family: Loricariidae

Genus: Otothyris

Species: Otothyris travassosi Garavello, Britski & Schaefer, 1998

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Life cycle and mating behavior

Habitat

demersal