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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Incertae sedis
Etymology: forestii: Named for Fausto Foresti, Professor of the university of São Paulo state 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho' (Unesp) in Brazil, for his contributions to fish genetics, with more than 250 papers published in this field.
Eponymy: Dr Fausto Foresti is a Brazilian geneticist and ichthyologist who was Professor of Cellular Biology, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, where he was awarded his doctorate and where he joined the faculty and taught (1969–2016) [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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Freshwater; demersal. Tropical

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South America: Roncador Stream and the das Brancas Stream, both tributaries of the Tocantizinho River, Tocantins basin in Brazil.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.8 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 115935)

Occurs in shallow, clear waters of about 0.5 m in depth and fast-flowing currents, with an underlying substrate of rock, in areas of flat terrain. Found associated with pebbles. Sympatric with other fishes such as Creagrutus sp., Rhinolekos capetinga, Hypostomus sp., Phenacorhamdia sp., Ancistrus sp., and Ituglanis sp. (Ref. 115935).

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Silva, G.S.C., F.F. Roxo, L.E. Ochoa and C. Oliveira, 2016. Description of a new catfish genus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Tocantins River basin in central Brazil, with comments on the historical zoogeography of the new taxon. ZooKeys 598:129-157. (Ref. 115935)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 04 December 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

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).

Microplecostomus forestii Silva, Roxo, Ochoa & Oliveira, 2016