Ancistrus malacops
Cope, 1872
Synonyms
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 18 cm
Standard length (documented)
148.1 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Sucumbíos, Loreto, Zamora Chinchipe, Caquetá
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
río Nangariza → río Zamora → río Santiago | río Muishini → río Morona | río Pastaza ⇒ río Marañón | rio Japurá ⇒ Amazonas → Atlantic NE
[ -3.651,-71.772 ]
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
unknown
present
fin edges: yellow
fin edges: yellow
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. 377
- Cope. E.D., 1871 "On the Fishes of the Ambyiacu River" (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 23, P. 287)
- 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. 70)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 222)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 113)
- Provenzano, F.R. & Barriga-Salazar, 2018 "Species of Ancistrus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from Ecuador, with the description of a new species from the Amazon River Basin" (abstract) (Zootaxa, Vol. 4527 No. 2, P. 227)
- PCF
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