Hypostomus aspilogaster
Cope, 1894
Synonyms
Cascudo-liso
Plecostomus aspilogaster
Plecostomus aspilogaster
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 30 cm
Standard length (documented)
266.2 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Rio Grande do Sul, Entre Ríos
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
rio Guaíba | rio Jaguarão = río Yaguarón → laguna Merín → canal São Gonçalo ⇒ lagoa dos Patos || rio Santa Maria → rio Ibicuí | río Cuareim ⇒ río Uruguay → río de la Plata ⇒ Atlantic SE
˜[ -29.955,-51.766 ]
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: males have longer fins
from genus: Standard
unknown
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
- Aquaristik Fachmagazin Okt./Nov. 2010 S.6
- Seidel, Ingo: "Die Hypostomus-Arten des Südens"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Oktober / November 2010 "Wels-Presseschau")
- Cope, E.D., 1894 "On the Fishes obtained by the Naturalist Expedition in rio Grande do Sul" (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held At Philadelphia fro Promoting useful Knowledge, Vol. 33, P. 100)
- Cardoso, Y.P.; Brancolini, F.; Paracampo, A.; Lizarralde, M.; Covain, R. & Montoya-Burgos, J.I., 2016 "Hypostomus formosae, a new catfish species from the Paraguay River Basin with redescription of H. boulengeri (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 27 No. 1, P. 20)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; Oyakawa, O.T. & Britski, H.a., 2017 "Hypostomus velhochico, a new keeled Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio São Francisco basin in Brazil" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4344 No. 3, P. 570)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; da Silva, H.P. & Troy, W.P., 2018 "Redescription of Hypostomus latirostris (Regan, 1904) with the recognition of a new species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraguay basin, Brazil" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, No. 1079, P. 1)
- Cardoso, Y.P.; Queiroz, L.J. de; Bahechar, I.A.; Posadas, P.E. & Montoya-Burgos, 2021 "Multilocus phylogeny and historical biogeography of Hypostomus shed light on the processes of fish diversification in La Plata Basin" (scientific reports, Vol. 11)
- Malabarba, L.R.;Hirschmann,A.; Lucena,C.A.S. de; Giora,J.; Wingert,J.M.; Ferrer,J.; Silva,P.C ; Angrizani,R.C.; Costa Ramos,R. da; Kullander,S.; Carvalho,T.P.; Bertaco,V.; Fialho,C.B. & Bonato,K.O., 2025 "Guia Peixes do Bioma Pampa"
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