Goeldiella eques ( Mueller & Troschel, 1849)

Collins, Rupert A., Duarte Ribeiro, Emanuell, Nogueira Machado, Valeria, Hrbek, Tomas & Farias, Izeni Pires, 2015, A preliminary inventory of the catfishes of the lower Rio Nhamunda, Brazil (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4162-4162 : 4162

Goeldiella eques ( Mueller & Troschel, 1849)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 43873 ; recordedBy: Valéria Nogueira Machado; Emanuell Duarte Ribeiro; Rupert A. Collins; individualCount: 1; otherCatalogNumbers: UFAM:CTGA:14537; associatedSequences: KP772599; Taxon: scientificName: Goeldiella eques ( Müller & Troschel, 1849); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Actinopterygii; order: Siluriformes; family: Heptapteridae; genus: Goeldiella; specificEpithet: eques; scientificNameAuthorship: ( Müller & Troschel, 1849); Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; locality: Lower Nhamunda River ; decimalLatitude: -1.99702; decimalLongitude: -57.03758; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Rupert A. Collins; Event: eventDate: 2013-11; Record Level: institutionCode: INPA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Notes

Identification to species level follows Eigenmann and Norris (1900) and Eigenmann (1912) based on the following characters: rounded caudal fin with larger lower lobe; distinct cranial fontanelle; maxillary barbels long, extending to caudal (extended only to caudal peduncle in our specimen); dorsal spine notched anteriorly; dark stripe along lateral line (in our specimen this comprised just a elongated blotch under the dorsal fin); base of caudal with dark bar; and obliquely angled dark saddle behind head (from dorsal insertion to base of opercle); and body and fins irregularly mottled.

One individual was caught by hand-net on the Rio Paratucu (sampling site NH10), and delivered a painful sting, confirming that many heptapterids are venomous ( Wright 2009). This specimen is pictured in Fig. 11.