Hypoptopoma steindachneri
Boulenger, 1895
dedicated Dr. Franz Steindachner
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 12 cm
Standard length (documented)
98.2 mm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
Temperature
24 - 28 °C
Type of water
Black water
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
Can breathe atmospheric
yes
unknown
absent
possibly rudimentary
incised / concave, pointed
top and bottom approximately the same length
possibly rudimentary
incised / concave, pointed
top and bottom approximately the same length
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. 323
- Boulenger, G.A., 1895 "Fishes from Matto Grosso and Paraguay" (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 4, P. 526)
- Schaefer, S.A., 1996 "Type designations for some Steindachner loricariid material (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) in the Natural History Museum, Vienna" (Copeia, Vol. 1996 No. 4, P. 1032)
- Aquino, A.E. & Schaefer, S.A., 2002 "Revision of Oxyropsis Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1889 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (Copeia, No. 2, P. 386)
- 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. 76)
- 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. 1108)
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Many thanks to
for the pictures
Mark Sabaj Pérez (CC BY-NC 3.0)
1, 2, 3
Steindachner, Franz (PD)
4, 5
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