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Mochokidae (Squeakers or upside-down catfishes) > Chiloglanidinae
Etymology: Chiloglanis: Greek, cheilos = lip + Greek, glanis = a fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook; a cat fish (Ref. 45335); frodobagginsi: Named after the diminutive traveler, Frodo Baggins, a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical
Africa: Guinea.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.8 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 131384)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 5 - 6; Anal soft rays: 5 - 7. This species is distinguished by the following characters: with a very reduced, or absent, mandibular barbels on the oral disc; mandibular teeth in one row 10-12; with two prominent papillae on the roof of the oral cavity; the short and blunt mandibular teeth are arranged in bunched rows; presence of a fleshy unpapillated ridge posterior to the mandibular teeth; eye diameter 4.2-6.5% SL; long maxillary barbels 3.8-7.2% SL; narrow mandibular tooth row 1.6-2.8% SL; distance between dorsal fin and adipose fin 14.4-21.5% SL; short anal-fin base length 8.0-10.8% SL; premaxillary teeth 36-70, scattered in three rows; narrow occipital shield 3.0-4.0% SL (Ref. 131384).
This species In the Tinkisso River was collected below the waterfall over small gravel in the middle of the channel (Ref. 131384).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Schmidt, R. C., P. H. N. Bragança, J. P. Friel, F. Pezold, D. Tweddle and H. L. Bart Jr., 2023. Two new species of suckermouth catfishes (Mochokidae: Chiloglanis) from Upper Guinean forest streams in West Africa. Ichthyology & Herpetology 111(3):376-389. (Ref. 131384)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
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].
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.1 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
