Chaetostoma aequinoctiale
Transancistrus aequinoctialis
Pellegrin, 1909
Synonyms
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 10 cm
Standard length (documented)
72.0 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
High above sea level
~560 m
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
Sex difference
unknown
present
I / 5 rays
straight
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 8 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
I / 5 rays
straight
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 8 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
Sympatric with
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. 379
- Pellegrin, Dr. Jacques, 1909 "Description de deux Poissons Nouveaux de la Famille des Loricariidés" (Bulletin du Muséum National D' Histoire Naturelle, Vol. 15, P. 518)
- Lujan, N.K.; Meza-Vargas, V. & Barriga-Salazar, 2015 "Two New Chaetostoma Group (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) Sister Genera from Opposite Sides of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, with the Description of One New Species" (BioOne, Vol. 103 No. 3, P. 651)
- Jiménez-Prado, P.; Aguirre, W.; Laaz-Moncayo, E.; Navarrete-Amaya, R.; Nugra-Salazar, F.; Rebolledo-Monsalve, E.; Zárate-Hugo, E.; Torres-Noboa, A. & Valdiviezo-Rivera, J., 2015 "Guia de peces para aguas continentales en la vertiente occidental del Ecuador"
- Lujan, N.K.; Meza-Vargas, V.; Astudillo-Clavijo, V. & ´López-Fernández, H., 2015 "A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes" (Copeia, Vol. 103 No. 3, P. 667)
- Provenzano, Francisco R. & Villa-Navarro, Francisco a., 2017 "A new species of the catfish genus Cordylancistrus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Magdalena River, Tolima, Colombia" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4294 No. 5, P. 529)
- Provenzano F.R.; Milani, N.; Rodríguez, C.A.A., 2017 "A new species of the catfish genus Cordylancistrus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4329 No. 3, P. 265)
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