Hypostomus meleagris
Marini, Nichols & La Monte, 1933
Synonyms
Plecostomus meleagris
Length (total)
approx. 35 cm
Recommended tank size
200 cm
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
- La Monte, Marini, Nichols, 1933 "Six new eastern South American fishes examined in the American Museum of Natural " (History. American Museum novitates ; no. 618 )
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 360
- Marini, T.L., Nichols, J.T. & LaMonte, F.R., 1933 "Six new eastern South American Fishes examined in the American Museum of Natural History" (American Museum Novitates, No. 618)
- 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. 27)
- Armbruster, J.W., 2004 "Phylogenetic relationships of the suckermouth armoured catfishes (Loricariidae) with emphasis on the Hypostominae and the Ancistrinae" (abstract) (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, P. 79)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 256)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; Birindelli, J.L.O. & Lima, F.C.T., 2012 "A new armored catfish species of the genus Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Xingu basin, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 10 No. 2, P. 246)
- PCF
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