Synonyms
Loricaria phoxocephala
Length (total)
approx. 20 cm
Standard length (documented)
144.5 mm
Recommended tank size
120 cm
Temperature
26 - 29 °C
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
unknown
 
absent
slightly incised / concave, pointed
short filament upper
slightly incised / concave, pointed
short filament upper
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
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 343
- Eigenmann, C.H. & Eigenmann, R.S., 1889 "Preliminary Notes on South American Nemotognathi II" (Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 2 Ser. 2, P. 37)
- López, H.L.; Miquelarena,A.M. & Menni, R.C., 2003 "Lista comentada de los peces continentales de la Argentina" (ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica, No. 5, P. 45)
- Menni, R.C., 2004 "Peces y ambientes en la Argentina continental" (Monografías del Museo Argentina Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, No. 5, P. 81)
- Rodríguez, M.S. & Miquelarena, A.M., 2005 "A new species of Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraná and Uruguay River basins, Misiones, Argentina" (Zootaxa, No. 945, P. 4)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 246)
- Vera-Alcaraz, H.S.; Pavanelli, C.S. & Zawadzki, H.Z., 2012 "Taxonomic revision of the Rineloricaria species (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraguay River basin" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 10 No. 2, P. 288)
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Jansen Zuanon (CC BY-NC 3.0)
1, 2
Mitsuhiro Iwamoto
3, 4
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