Synonyms
Chaetostoma platyrhyncha
Cordylancistrus platyrhynchus
Hemiancistrus platyrhynchus
Peckoltia platyrhyncha
Cordylancistrus platyrhynchus
Hemiancistrus platyrhynchus
Peckoltia platyrhyncha
data deficient
Length (total)
approx. 15 cm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
23 - 27 °C
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: Male have a more angular head and the edge of their snout is more thick
from genus: Standard
unknown
 
7 - 9 soft rays
Snout covered with plates
Sympatric with
not known
- Seidel, Ingo: "Chaetostoma joropo und Chaetostoma platyrhynchus"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Dezember/Januar 2017)
- Fowler, Henry W., 1943 "A Collection of Fresh-Water Fishes from Colombia, Obtained Chiefly by Brother Nicéforo Maria " (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 95, P. 252)
- Ballen, G.A.; Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Maldonado Ocampo, J.A., 2016 "Description of a new species of the genus Chaetostoma from the Orinoco drainage with comments on Chaetostoma milesi Fowler (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4105 No. 2)
- PCF
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