Loricariichthys acutus
Valenciennes, 1840
Synonyms
Loricaria acuta
Length (total)
approx. 25 cm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Temperature
24 - 28 °C
Pará, Loreto, Amazonas (BRA)
Brazil, Guyana, Peru
rio Aripuanã | igarapé Cuniã ⇒ rio Madeira | río Ucayali | rio Xingu | rio Negro ⇒ Amazonas | Essequibo River ⇒ Atlantic NE
˜[ -8.205,-74.470 ]
Substrate
sand, mud
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
insects, inverbrates (aquatic) (invertebrates (aquatic)), (sand), amoebas, inverbrates (terrestrial) (invertebrates (terrestris)), algae, detritus, fruits, diatoms (Bacillariophyceae), vegetable fibers
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: note lips
lip breeder
from genus: yes
unknown
I / 5 rays
12 soft rays
I / 7 rays
7 soft rays
6 soft rays
12 soft rays
I / 7 rays
7 soft rays
6 soft rays
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
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 338
- Valenciennes, M.A., 1840 "Siluroïdes - Des Loricaires, des Rinelepis et des Hypostomes" (Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, Vol. 15, P. 472)
- Kner, R., 1854 "Die Panzerwelse des k. k. Hof-Naturalien-Cabinetes zu Wien - I. Loricarinae" (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Vol. 6, P. 65)
- Regan, C. Tate, 1904 "A monograph of the Fishes of the Family Loricariidae" (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 17/1903-06, Vol. 17, P. 287)
- Steindachner, Dr. F., 1908 "Mitteilung über drei neue Arten von Süßwasserfischen aus dem Stromgebiete des Amazonas innerhalb Brasiliens" (Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Vol. 45, P. 83)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H., 1980 "Classification and catalogue of the mailed Loricariidae (Pisces, Siluriformes)" (Verslagen en technische Gegevens. Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie, No. 22, P. 125)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H., 1981 "Revision of Loricaria Linnaeus, 1758 (Pisces, Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (Beaufortia, Vol. 31 No. 3, P. 87)
- Reis, R. & Pereira, H.L., 2000 "Three New Species of the Loricariid Catfish Genus Loricariichthys (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Southern South America" (Copeia, No. 4, P. 1047)
- Mérona, B. de & Rankin-de-Mérona, J., 2004 "Food resource partitioning in a fish community of the central Amazon floodplain" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 2 No. 2, P. 77)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 269)
- Barros, M.C.; Fraga, E.C. & Birindell, J.L.=., 2011 "Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil" (Brazilian Journal of Biology, Vol. 71 No. 2)
- Queiroz, L.J. de; Torrente-Vilara, G.; Vieira, F.G.; Ohara, W.M.; Zuanon, J. & Doria, C.R.C., 2013 "Fishes of Cuniã Lake, Madeira River Basin, Brazil" (CheckList, Vol. 9 No 3, P. 545)
- Silva, G.H.; Zeni, J.O. & Langeani, F., 2025 "Head morphology and diet of whiptail catfishes (Loricariidae: Loricariinae)" (Neotropical ichthyology, Vol. 21 No. 3)
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