Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Siluriformes
Familia: Auchenipteridae
Subfamilia: Auchenipterinae
Genus: Entomocorus
Species: E. benjamini
Entomocorus benjamini is a species of driftwood catfish found in the Madeira River system in Bolivia and Brazil.[1] This species grows to a length of 7.0 cm and can be distinguished from it congeners in that the distal half of dorsal caudal fin lobe and the edge of the ventral lobe is pigmented.[2]
E. benjamini is an invertivore that feeds on aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates (primarily insects), zooplankton (including cladocerans, copepods, and rotiferans), and both aquatic and terrestrial vegetation.[2] A single fish could ingest as many as 1700 planktonic crustaceans in a single night, when this species feeds near the water surface.[3]
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Entomocorus benjamini". FishBase. December 2011 version.
Reis, Roberto E.; Borges, Thiago A. K. (2006). Armbruster, J. W. (ed.). "The South American Catfish Genus Entomocorus (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae), with the Description of a New Species from the Paraguay River Basin". Copeia. 2006 (3): 412–422. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2006)2006[412:TSACGE]2.0.CO;2.
Rodriguez, Marco A.; Richardson, Susan E.; Lewis, William M. Jr. (1990). "Nocturnal Behavior and Aspects of the Ecology of a Driftwood Catfish, Entomocorus gameroi (Auchenipteridae)". Biotropica. 22 (4). The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation: 435–438. Bibcode:1990Biotr..22..435R. doi:10.2307/2388565. JSTOR 2388565.
Further reading
Eigenmann, CH (1917). "New and rare species of South American Siluridae in the Carnegie Museum." Annals of Carnegie Museum. 11:398–404. Original description.
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