Acanthicus hystrix
Spix & Agassiz, 1829
(Type species)
hystrix = Stachelschwein
Synonyms
acari avião (BRA)
guariba
Hedgehog Pleco
Rinelepis acanthicus
guariba
Hedgehog Pleco
Rinelepis acanthicus
Length (total)
approx. 120 cm
Standard length (documented)
600.0 mm
Recommended tank size
300 cm
Temperature
25 - 30 °C
pH
6.0 - 8.0
(Prefered) River depth
2.00 - 3.00 m
Flow
normal - strong
Substrate
rocks
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
Eats plants
yes
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: longer interopercular-odontodes and more and strongre odontodes on the first spin of pectoral fin
DATZ
holotype is destroyed -> today species is not definited -> Redescription 2016
Not on the positive list of Brazil in 2012 : The positive list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
- Seidel, Ingo: "Die Harnischwelse des Rio Uraricoera (Rio-Negro-Becken, Brasilien)"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin August/September 2008)
- Spix, J.B.von, 1829 "Selecta genera et species piscium Brasiliensium" (Monachii)
- Regan, C. Tate, 1904 "A monograph of the Fishes of the Family Loricariidae" (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 17/1903-06, Vol. 17, P. 262)
- Chamon, Carine C., 2016 "Redescription of Acanthicus hystrix Agassiz, 1829 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with comments on the systematics and distribution of the genus" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4088, P. 395)
Many thanks to
for the pictures
Hans-Georg Evers
1, 2
Robert H. Schomburgk (1841)
3
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