Otocinclus mariae
Fowler, 1940
dedicated Mrs. Arthur Howes
Synonyms
Maria's Oto
Length (total)
approx. 4 cm
Standard length (documented)
32.8 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Temperature
21 - 26 °C
pH
5.5 - 7.5
Cochabamba, Mato Grosso, Pará (BRA)
Brazil, Bolivia
córrego do Bugre → rio Sararé → río Guaporé | río Ichilo ⇒ río Mamoré → rio Madeira → Amazonas | baia do Guajará → rio Pará | rio Trombetas ⇒ Atlantic NE
[ -15.945,-64.758 ]
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
Can breathe atmospheric
yes
from genus: W: größer, fülliger, weniger Odontoden am Schwanzstiel M: kleiner, zierlicher
unknown
5 soft rays
I / 7 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
I / 7 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
Sympatric with
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. 325
- Seidel, Ingo: "Die Ohrgitterwelse der Gattung Otocinclus"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin April / Mai 2022)
- Fowler, Henry, 1940 "Zoological Results of the Second Bolivian Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936-1937. Part I: The Fishes" (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 92, P. 83)
- Britto, M.R. de; Moreira, C.R. & Schaefer, S.A., 2002 "Otocinclus tapirape: A New Hypoptopomatine Catfish from Central Brazil (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Copeia, Vol. 2002 No. 4, P. 1067)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 275)
- Chiachio, M.C.; Olivera, C. & Montoya-Burgos, J.I., 2008 "Molecular systematic and historical biogeography of the armored Neotropical catfishes Hypotopomatinae and Neoplecostominae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (abstract) (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 49 No. 2, P. 610)
- Lehmann, P.A.; Mayer, F. & Reis, R.E., 2010 "A New Species of Otocinclus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Madeira Drainage, Brazil" (abstract) (Copeia, Vol. 2010 No. 4, P. 636)
- Ribeiro, A.C. & Lehmann, P.A., 2016 "A new Otocinclus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the Rio Juruena Basin, central Brazil" (Zootaxa 4247 (3), P. 244)
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