Hypoptopoma psilogaster
Fowler, 1915
philo - naked; gaster - stomach
Synonyms
Giant Tiger Otocinclus
Length (total)
approx. 9 cm
Standard length (documented)
70.0 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Temperature
24 - 28 °C
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
Can breathe atmospheric
yes
unknown
small
possibly rudimentary
I / 5 rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
I / 7 rays
straight
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
possibly rudimentary
I / 5 rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
I / 7 rays
straight
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
not known
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
29/January/2022
- 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
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(Aquaristik Fachmagazin April / Mai 2022)
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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. 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)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 112)
- 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)
- PCF
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Henry Fowler, 1915 (PD)
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