Otocinclus vestitus
Cope, 1871
(Type species)
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 4 cm
Standard length (documented)
32.1 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Temperature
25 - 30 °C
Loreto, Amazonas (BRA), Beni
Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru
Amazonas ↓ río Paraguay ➙ río Paraná ➙ río de la Plata
[ -3.326,-71.877 ]
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
Sympatric with
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
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
10/February/2019
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- Seidel, Ingo: "Die Ohrgitterwelse der Gattung Otocinclus"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin April / Mai 2022)
- Cope. E.D., 1871 "On the Fishes of the Ambyiacu River" (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 23, P. 283)
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- 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)
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- 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. 76)
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