dedicated the sister Laura Maria Ballen, formosa = beautiful
Synonyms
Blonde Bulldog Pleco
Blonde Rubber Pleco
Blonde Rubbernose Pleco
Chaetostoma thomasi
Kopfpunkt-Gebirgsharnischwels
L187b
Striped Bulldog Pleco
Striped Rubber Pleco
Striped Rubbernose Pleco
Blonde Rubber Pleco
Blonde Rubbernose Pleco
Chaetostoma thomasi
Kopfpunkt-Gebirgsharnischwels
L187b
Striped Bulldog Pleco
Striped Rubber Pleco
Striped Rubbernose Pleco
Length (total)
approx. 13 cm
Standard length (documented)
102.6 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
23 - 27 °C
pH
6.5 - 7.5
caño Chuy, río Acacias, caño Camoa = río Camoa, quebrada La Candelaria, río Caney, caño El Caribe, caño La Curia, quebrada Cuyandera, río Guamal = quebrada Guamal, río Guayuriba, río Güejar, ➀ río Humadea, río Ocoa, río Orotoy, caño Quenane, río Guatiquía basin
quebrada Piedras Negras, caño Mateguadua, caño Chichimene
quebrada Piedras Negras, caño Mateguadua, caño Chichimene
Boyacá, Meta, Casanare
Colombia
Río Acacias | río Ariari ⇒ río Guayuriba | río Guatquía ⇒ río Metica ➙ río Meta ➙ río Orinoco
[ 4.818,-73.172 ]
Type of water
Clear water
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
approx. 9.0 cm
from genus: Standard
yes
 
present
ii / (3 -) 4 rays
14 soft rays
straight
little longer at the bottom than at the top
II / 8 rays
I / 6 rays
I / 5 rays
ii / (3 -) 4 rays
14 soft rays
straight
little longer at the bottom than at the top
II / 8 rays
I / 6 rays
I / 5 rays
anal fin modified
not known
- I. Seidel / H.-G. Evers "Welsatlas 2" edition: 1 (2005) P.456
- Seidel, Ingo "Ingos Harnischwelszucht" edition: 1 (2010) P.150
- DATZ 11/2010 S.24
- Braitmayer, Sabrina: "L-Nummern aus Kolumbien (I)"
(DATZ 11/2010 - "Wels-Presseschau") - Seidel, Ingo: "IG BSSW-News"
(BSSW-Report 1/2012 - "Wels-Presseschau") - Seidel, Ingo: "Chaetostoma joropo und Chaetostoma platyrhynchus"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Dezember/Januar 2017) - Werner, Uwe: "Schnorcheln im Río Humadea, einem Zufluss zum Río Meta in Kolumbien"
(Amazonas Mai / Juni 2021)
- Ballen, Gustava A., 2011 "A new species of Chaetostoma Tschudi (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Colombia with a definition of the C. anale species group" (Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, Vol. 51 No. 26, P. 383)
- 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, P. 194)
- 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. 79)
- Mojica,J.I.& Agudelo-Zamora, H.D., 2018 "Historical review, catalog of type specimens and online database of the ichthyology collection of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (ICN-MHN)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4478 No. 1, P. 31)
- Urbano-Bonilla, A.; Ballen, G.A.; Herrera-R, G.A.; Zamudio, J., Herrera-Collazos; E.E.; DoNascimiento, C.; Prada-Pedreros, S. & Maldonado-Ocampo, A., 2018 "Fishes of the Cusiana River (Meta River basin, Colombia), with an identification key to its species" (ZooKeys, No. 733, P. 75)
- 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
aneroeancoh
1, 2
Ingo Seidel
4
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