Synonyms
unknown
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 9 cm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
High above sea level
~680 m
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
4 soft rays
I / 7 rays
4 soft rays
I / 7 rays
not known
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- Blumhagen, Andrew & Blumhagen, Jeanette: "Die Suche nach den fehlenden Barteln"
(Amazonas Januar / Februar 2018)
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- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 223)
- Oliveira, R.R. de; Zuanon, J.; Zawadzki, C.H. & Rapp Py-Daniel, L., 2015 "Ancistrus maximus, a new species of red-dotted armored catfish from rio Branco, Roraima State, Brazilian Amazon (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Ichthyological exploration of freshwaters, Vol. 26 No. 1, P. 81)
- 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. 235)
- Bifi, A.G.; Oliveira, R.R. de & Rapp Py-Daniel, L., 2019 "A new species of Ancistrus Kner, 1854 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from rio Madeira basin, Amazonas State, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 17 No. 2, P. 8)
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