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Donin LM, Ferrer J, Carvalho TP. 2022 (2)

This species has many colour forms as can be seen in the two thumbnail images below. Description: Cambeva barbosae is distinguished from its congeners by the combination of a high number of pectoral-fin rays modally I,7 (vs. I,5 or I,6), the antorbital segment of the laterosensory system (pores i1 and i3) absent (vs. present). Habitat: Cambeva barbosae is distributed in the Cubatão Sul, Biguaçu, Tijucas, Itapocu, Cubatão Norte river basins and in the Santa Catarina Island. Colouration: The colouration with a mottled pattern composed of irregular and coalescent inconspicuous black marks or with sparse black blotches varying in size eventually rounded (vs. body with large rounded or ellipsoid black blotches; with spots or rounded blotches forming a mid-lateral line, with small circular blotches not coalescent). (Donin LM, Ferrer J, Carvalho TP. 2022). Diet: Will feed on most aquarium fare such as tablet, frozen and live foods. Etymology: Cambeva barbosae is named in honour of the Brazilian ichthyologist Maria Anaïs Barbosa, for her efforts to collect and study trichomycterines from Santa Catarina. Remarks: The species collected in the Santa Catarina island and identified as Trichomycterus sp. by Bertaco (2009), probably is Cambeva barbosae, since both were collected at the same locality in Córrego Grande.

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Trichomycteridae

South America: Santa Catarina state: Águas Mornas municipality: Rio Cubatão do Sul basin, 27°39'51"S, 48°51'26"W, about 130 m asl.

8.0cm. (3¼ins)

16-26°c (59-79°f.)

6.0-7.0.

Costa WJEM, Feltrin CRM, Katz AM (2021) Filling distribution gaps: Two new species of the catfish genus Cambeva from southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(1): 147-159.
Donin LM, Ferrer J, Carvalho TP. Uncertainties and risks in delimiting species of Cambeva (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) with single-locus methods and geographically restricted data. Neotrop Ichthyol. 2022.