dedicated Napoleon Puga
Synonyms
Loricaria puganensis
Shitari (PER)
Shitari (PER)
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 25 cm
Recommended tank size
120 cm
Temperature
24 - 28 °C
Type of water
White water
Nutrition (mostly): insect-eater
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
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absent
I / 5 rays
I / 7 rays
I / 5 rays
I / 7 rays
not known
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 345
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 2 P.789 - 790
- Pearson, Nathan E., 1937 "The Fishes of the Atlantic and Pacific Slopes near Cajamarca, Peru" (Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Ser. 4 Vol. 23, P. 96)
- Lujan, N.K.; Armbruster, J.; Lovejoy, N.R. & López-Fernández, H., 2014 "Multilocus molecular phylogeny of the suckermouth armored catfishes (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with a focus on subfamily Hypostominae" (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 82, P. 77)
- Fichberg, I.; Oyakawa, O.T. & Pinna, M. de, 2014 "The End of an Almost 70-Year Wait: A New Species of Spatuloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Xingu and Rio Tapajós Basins" (Copeia, Vol. 2014 No. 2, P. 323)
- Londoño-Burbano, A.; Urbano-Bonilla, A.; Rojas, Y.; Rmírez-Gil & Prada-Pedreros, S., 2018 "A New Species of Spatuloricaria Schultz, 1944 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the Orinoco River Basin, Colombia" (Copeia, Vol. 106 No. 4, P. 620)
- Londoño-Burbano, A. & Reis, R.E., 2021 "A combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of the Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with emphasis on the Harttiini and Farlowellini" (PlosOne)
- Krings, W.; Konn‑Vetterlein, D.; Hausdorf, B. & Gorb, S.N., 2023 "Holding in the stream: convergent evolution of suckermouth structures in Loricariidae (Siluriformes)" (Frontiers in Zoology, Vol. 20 No. 1, P. 37)
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Many thanks to
for the pictures
Carvalho et. al., 2009 (PD)
1, 2, 3
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