Tatia strigata Soares-Porto 1995

Distinguished from all congeners by having a completely striped color pattern, bearing whitish elongate longitudinal irregular stripes along lateral sides of body. Adult male with a unique arrangement of modified anal fin, with the second unbranched anal-fin ray with anterior enlarged segments and a notch formed by the reduction of the second and third branched rays. Additional features useful to separate this species from all congeners include: pectoral-fin with four branched rays; 7 ribs; vertebrae 29-30; and upper caudal-fin lobe slightly elongated in mature males, same length in females (Ref. 79512).Description: A iii,6-7; V i+5. Post-Weberian vertebrae (Ref. 79512).

Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 4 - 5; Analsoft rays: 9 - 10; Vertebrae: 29 - 30

Feeds mainly on juvenile and adult insects.

Collected in an igarape of rivers, hidden in submerged trunk. Feeds mainly on juvenile and adult insects.