macula (lat.) = patch; pinna = fin/feather
Synonyms
Otocinclus maculipinnis
Length (total)
approx. 5 cm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
unknown
 
absent
I / 5 rays
slightly incised / concave
top and bottom approximately the same length
dark patches
I / 7 rays
I / 5 rays
slightly incised / concave
top and bottom approximately the same length
dark patches
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. 323
- Regan, C. Tate, 1912 "Descriptions of new Fishes of the Familiy Loricariidae in the British Museum Collection" (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 3 - 4, P. 668)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 248)
- Azpelicueta, M. de las Merceces, Almirón, Adriana E., Casciotta, Jorge R. & Koerber, Stefan, 2007 "Hisonotus hungy sp. n. (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) a new species from arroyo Tirica, Misiones, Argentina" (Revue Suisse de Zoologie, Vol. 114 No. 3, P. 596)
- Britskie, H.A. & Garavello, J.C., 2007 "Description of two new sympatric species of the genus Hisonotus Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1889, from upper Rio Tapajós, Mato Grosso state, Brazil (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Loricariidae)" (Brazilian Journal of Biology, Vol. 67 No. 3, P. 414)
- Carvalho, T.P. & Reis, R.E., 2011 "Taxonomic review of Hisonotus Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the laguna dos Patos system, southern Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 9 No. 1)
- Nión, H.; Rios, C. & Meneses, P., 2016 "Peces del Uruguay - Lista sistemática y nombres comunes"
- Calegari, B.B.; Morlis, W.G. & Reis, R.E., 2017 "A new species of Otothyropsis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Río Paraná basin, Paraguay, with a discussion of the limits between Otothyropsis and Hisonotus" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4244, No. 2, P. 244)
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Many thanks to
for the pictures
Enzo Edgardo Ferreyra
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
C. Tate Regan (1912) (PD)
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