Rhizosomichthys totae Miles, 1942
Greasefish, Lake Tota feeler fish, Pez grasso, Tota catfish, Pez graso, Runcho
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pygidium totae Miles, 1942 (protonym)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1957 or 1958
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Lake Tota, Colombia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
SU 37074
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miles, C. (1942). Descripcion sistematica del “pez graso” del Lago de Tota (Boyacá). Caldasia 5: 55-58.
Other references:
Burgess, W. E. (1989). An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes. A preliminary survey of the Siluriformes. T. F. H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey (USA). 784 pp.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Mesa-Salazar, L. & Mojica, J. 2016. Rhizosomichthys totae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T19661A61472482. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T19661A61472482.en. Accessed on 09 July 2022.
Mojica J. I., C. Castellanos, J. S. Usma, and R. Álvarez. (2002). Libro Rojo de los Peces Dulceacuicolas de Colombia. La serie libros rojos de especies amenazadas de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, Bogotá, D.C.
Mojica, J.I., Usma, J.S., Álvarez-León, R. and Lasso, C.A. 2012. Libro rojo de peces dulceacuícolas de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá.
Schaefer, Scott A. and Fernández, Luis. (2009). Redescription of the Pez Graso, Rhizosomichthys totae (Trichomycteridae), of Lago de Tota, Colombia, and Aspects of Cranial Osteology Revealed by Microtomography. Copeia 2009(3): 510-522. [Abstract]
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Rhizosomichthys totae. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 01 February 2012.
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/rhizosomichthys-totae.html
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1730/rhizosomichthys-totae-pez-graso
https://shoalconservation.org/finding-the-fat-catfish/