Hisonotus paulinus
Regan, 1908
Synonyms
Marbled Otocinclus
Microlepidogaster paulinus
Otocinclus paulinus
Microlepidogaster paulinus
Otocinclus paulinus
Length (total)
approx. 4 cm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
unknown
absent
I / 4 rays
14 soft rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
top and bottom approximately the same length
I / 7 rays
I / 4 rays
14 soft rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
top and bottom approximately the same length
I / 7 rays
Sympatric with
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. 323
- Regan, C.T., 1907 "Description of new Loricariid Fishes from South America" (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, P. 799)
- Almirón, A.; Azpelicueta, M. de las M.; Casciotta, J.R. & Litz, T., 2006 "A new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Otothyrini) from the República Oriental del Uruguay" (Revue suisse de zoologie, Vol. 113, P. 92)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 249)
- 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)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; Roxo, F.F. & Graça. W.J. da, 2016 "Hisonotus pachysarkos, a new species of cascudinho from the rio Ivaí basin, upper rio Paraná system, Brazil (Loricariidae: Otothyrinae)" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 26 No. 4, P. 381)
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for the pictures
C. Tate Regan (PD)
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