Hemiloricaria nigricauda/Rineloricaria nigricauda
Regan, 1904
nigro - black, cauda - caudal fin (in young fish)
Synonyms
unknown
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 15 cm
Standard length (documented)
131.3 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
18 - 23 °C
rio Macacu = rio Macuco, rio das Antas, rio do Barreiro de Baixo, córrego Bemposta, córrego Boa Vista, rio Cágado, reservatório do Calçado, rio Calçado, córrego Cascatinha, rio Fagundes, rio Guapiaçu, rio da Maria Comprida, rio Paquequer, rio do Peixe, rio Piabanha, rio Preto, rio Sacra Familia, ribeirão Santa Rita, rio Santo Antônio, rio São Geraldo, rio Sesmarias, córrego da Tocaia, ➀ rio Paraíba do Sul = rio Parahyba basin
Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais
Brazil
rio Paquequer | rio dos Frades ⇒ rio Preto | rio Fagundes ⇒ rio Piabanha | rio Paraibuna | rio Calçado | rio São Geraldo | rio Piraí ⇒ rio Paraíba do Sul | baía de Guanabara ⇒ Atlantic SE
˜[ -22.450,-44.301 ]
Type of water
Clear water
Flow
small - strong
Substrate
gravel, sand, rocks
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
unknown
absent
greatly incised / concave, pointed
monochrome dark
straight
fin edging: black
greatly incised / concave, pointed
monochrome dark
straight
fin edging: black
Sympatric with
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
- 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. 275)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H., 1979 "Descriptions préliminaries de nouveaux taxa de la famille des Loricariidae, poissons-chats cuirassés néotropicaux, avec un catalogue critique de la sous-famille nominale (Pisces, Siluriformes)" (Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie, Vol. 5 No. 4, P. 113)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H., 1981 "Revision of Loricaria Linnaeus, 1758 (Pisces, Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (Beaufortia, Vol. 31 No. 3, P. 88)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H.; Seidel, I.; Michels, J.P., Schraml, R. & Werner,A., 2001 "Diagnose vierzehn neuer Gattungen der Familie Loricariidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Teleostei, Ostariophysi)" (DATZ Sonderheft Harnischwelse 2, 2, P. 23)
- 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)
- Britski, H.A.; Silimon, K.Z.S. & Lopes, B.S., 2007 "Peixes do Pantanal-Manual de Identificação"
- Ghazzi, M.S., 2008 "Nove espécies novas do gênero Rineloricaria (Siluriformes,Loricariidae) do rio Uruguai, do sul do Brasil" (Iheringia. Série Zoologia, Vol. 98 No. 1, P. 102)
- 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. 289)
- 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" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 25)
- Mejia, E. & Buckup. P.A., 2024 "Species boundaries of the whiptail catfish Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraíba do Sul River drainage, southeastern Brazil, with species redescriptions and description of a new species" (abstract) (Journal of Fish Biology)
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for the pictures
C. Tate Regan (1904) (PD)
1, 2, 3
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