Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; acqua dolce pelagico. Tropical
Africa: Lower Guinea endemic, only known from the Kouilou River basin in the Republic of Congo (Ref. 81638).
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.8 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 7094)
Short description
Morfologia | Morfometria
Spine dorsali (totale): 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale): 15-16; Spine anali 0; Raggi anali molli: 12 - 13. Diagnosis: 38-40 lateral line scales; 9-10 branched anal fin rays; mid-lateral pigmentation on body absent or at most irregular and not forming distinct band; dorsal portions of body without distinct vertically oriented dark marks that form saddle-shaped pigmentation pattern (Ref. 81638).
Maximum SL recorded is 37 mm (Ref. 81638).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Vari, R.P., 2007. Distichodontidae. p. 412-465. In M.L.J. Stiassny, G.G. Teugels and C.D. Hopkins (eds.) The fresh and brackish water fishes of Lower Guinea, West-Central Africa. Volume I. Collection Faune et Flore tropicales 42. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, and Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium. 800 pp. (Ref. 81638)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Pesca:
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00380 (0.00147 - 0.00981), b=3.11 (2.88 - 3.34), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.1 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).