Hypoptopoma guianense
Boeseman, 1974
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 8 cm
Standard length (documented)
62.0 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
Can breathe atmospheric
yes
unknown
not known
- Boeseman, M., 1974 "On two Surinam species of Hypoptopomatinae, both new to science (Loricariidae, Siluriformes, Ostariophysi)" (Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Series C, Biological and Medical Sciences)) P. 259
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 323
- 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. 87)
- Ferraris, C.J. Jr. & Vari, R.P. , 1992 "Catalog of type specimens of recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution" (Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, No. 535, P. 27)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 250)
- Aquino, A.E. & Schaefer, S.A., 2010 "Systematics of the genus Hypoptopoma Günther, 1868 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural History, No. 336, P. 1)
- Aquino, A.E.& Pérez, M.H.S. , 2016 "Oxyropsis ephippia, a New Hypoptopomatine Catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Guyana" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4236 No. 1, P. 139)
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