Ancistrus brevifilis
Eigenmann, 1920
Synonyms
Barbón
Length (total)
approx. 13 cm
Standard length (documented)
102.8 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
25 - 29 °C
pH
6.5 - 7.5
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: The males have more and longer tentacle on the head. Often females have only short tentacle/stublles anlong the mouth.
from genus: Standard
PCF?
present
I / 4 rays
I / 7 rays
I / 4 rays
I / 7 rays
not known
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 374
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1920 "The Fishes of Lake Valencia, Caracas, and of the Rio Tuy at El Concejo, Venezuela" (Indiana University Studies , Vol. 7, P. 8)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H., 1980 "Classification and catalogue of the mailed Loricariidae (Pisces, Siluriformes)" (Verslagen en technische Gegevens. Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie, No. 22, P. 66)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 219)
- DoNascimiento, C.; Herrera-Callazos, E.E.; Herrera-R., G.A.; Ortega-Lara, A.; Villa-Navarro, F.A.; Oviedo, J.S.U. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., 2017 "Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem - Species deleted from the Colombian continental ichthyofauna" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 20)
- Souza, L.S. de; Taphorn, D.C. & Armbruster, J.W., 2019 "Review of Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the northwestern Guiana Shield, Orinoco Andes, and adjacent basins with description of six new species" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4552 No. 1, P. 14)
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Eigenmann (1920) (PD)
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