Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 12 cm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
18 - 22 °C
pH
6.0 - 7.0
Type of water
Clear water
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
substrate breeder
from genus: yes
unknown
 
ticklish, cool water
Sympatric with
Rineloricaria kronei
Astyanax bifasciatus
Astyanax laticeps
Bryconamericus microcephalus
Characidium pterostictum
Deuterodon iguape
Geophagus iporanguensis
Hoplias sp. aff. malabaricus
Phalloceros harpagos
Astyanax bifasciatus
Astyanax laticeps
Bryconamericus microcephalus
Characidium pterostictum
Deuterodon iguape
Geophagus iporanguensis
Hoplias sp. aff. malabaricus
Phalloceros harpagos
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
- Miranda Ribeiro, Dr. A.de, 1908 "Peixes da Ribeira. Resultados de excursão do Sr. Ricardo Krone, membro correspondente do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro" (Kosmos, Rio de Janeiro)
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 335
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 1 (2002) P.445
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 2 (2005) P.484 - 485
- Miranda Ribeiro, Dr. A.de, 1953 "Tipos das espécies e subespécies do Prof. Alipio de Míranda Ribeiro depositados no Museu Nacional" (Arquivos do Museu Nacional de Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 42, P. 400)
- 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. 90)
- Oyakawa, O.T., 1993 "Cinco espécies novas de Harttia Steindachner, 1876 da região sudeste do Brasil, de comentários sobre o gênero (Teleostei, Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (Comunicações do Museu de Ciências da PUCRS, Vol. 6, P. 20)
- Langeani, F.; Oyakawa, O.T. & Montoya-Burgos, J.I., 2001 "New species of Harttia (Loricariidae, Loricariinae) from the Rio São Francisco basin" (Copeia, Vol. 2001, P. 141)
- Rapp Py-Daniel & Oliveira, E., 2001 "Seven new species of Harttia from the Amazonian-Guyana region (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 12 No. 1, P. 80)
- Provenzano, F.R.; Machado-Allison, A.; Chernoff, B.; Willink, P. & Petry, P., 2005 "Harttia merevari, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Venezuela" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 3 No. 4, P. 521)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 241)
- Oyakawa, O.T.; Fichberg, I. & Langeani, F., 2013 "Harttia absaberi, a new species of loricariid catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Loricariinae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 11 No. 4, P. 785)
- Oyakawa, O.T.; Fichberg, I., Rapp Py-Daniel, L., 2018 "Three new species of Harttia (Loricariidae: Loricariinae) from Serra do Cachimbo, Rio Xingu basin, Pará, Northern Brazil" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4387 No. 1, P. 85)
- Frota, A.; Message, H.J.; Oliveira, R.C.de; Benedito, E. & Graça, W.J.da, 2019 "Ichthyofauna of headwater streams from the rio Ribeira de Iguape basin, at the boundaries of the Ponta Grossa Arch, Paraná, Brazil" (Biota Neotropica, Vol. 19 No. 1)
- 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)
- PCF
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