according to the origin Arroio Taim
Synonyms
Microlepidogaster taimensis
Length (total)
approx. 7 cm
Standard length (documented)
51.1 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Flow
small
Substrate
sand, mud
In water
Echinodorus
On the riverbank
grasses
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
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
- Buckup, P.A., 1981 "Microlepidogaster taimensis sp. n., novo Hypoptopomatinae da Estação Ecopógica do Taim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil (Ostariophysi, Loridariidae)" (Iheringia) P. 19
- 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
- Carvalho, T.P. & Reis, R.E., 2011 "Taxonomic review of Hisonotus Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the laguna dos Patos system, southern Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 9 No. 1)
- Corrêa, F.; de Oliveira, E.F.; Tuchtenhagen, T.; Pouey, J. & Piedras, S., 2015 "Ichthyofauna of the hydrographic basin of the Chasqueiro Stream (Mirim Lagoon system, southern Brazil): generating subsidies for conservation and management" (Biozs Nroztopica, Vol. 15 No. 4)
- Nión, H.; Rios, C. & Meneses, P., 2016 "Peces del Uruguay - Lista sistemática y nombres comunes"
- Bertaco, V.A.; Ferrer, J.; Carvalho, F.R. & Malabarba, L.R., 2016 "Article Inventory of the freshwater fishes from a densely collected area in South America —a case study of the current knowledge of Neotropical fish diversity" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4138 No. 3, P. 418)
- Calegari, B.B.; Morlis, W.G. & Reis, R.E., 2017 "A new species of Otothyropsis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Río Paraná basin, Paraguay, with a discussion of the limits between Otothyropsis and Hisonotus" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4244, No. 2, P. 244)
- Bertaco, V. & Azevedo M.A., 2018 "Type catalog from the fish collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4392 No. 1, P. 94)
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