Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 35 cm
Standard length (documented)
324.0 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
lip breeder
from genus: yes
unknown
 
I / 5 rays
incised / concave, pointed
long filament upper
I / 7 rays
straight
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
incised / concave, pointed
long filament upper
I / 7 rays
straight
6 soft rays
5 soft 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
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- Boulenger, G.A., 1895 "Fishes from Matto Grosso and Paraguay" (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 4, P. 528)
- 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. 292)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H., 1979 "Descriptions préliminaries de nouveaux taxa de la famille des Loricariidae, poissons-chats cuirassés néotropicaux, avec un catalogue critique de la sous-famille nominale (Pisces, Siluriformes)" (Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie, Vol. 5 No. 4, P. 110)
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- López, H.L.; Miquelarena,A.M. & Menni, R.C., 2003 "Lista comentada de los peces continentales de la Argentina" (ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica, No. 5, P. 46)
- Menni, R.C., 2004 "Peces y ambientes en la Argentina continental" (Monografías del Museo Argentina Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, No. 5, P. 79)
- Rodriguez, M.S. & Miquelarena, A.M., 2005 "Una nueva especie de Loricaria (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) para la cuenca del río San Francisco, Jujuy, Argentina" (Anales de la Academie Nacional de Ciencias Exactis, Físicas y Naturales Buenos Aires, Vol. 55, P. 142)
- Britski, H.A.; Silimon, K.Z.S. & Lopes, B.S., 2007 "Peixes do Pantanal-Manual de Identificação"
- Thomas, M.R. & Sabaj Pérez, M.H., 2010 "A New Species of Whiptail Catfish, Genus Loricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the Rio Curuá (Xingu Basin)" (Copeia, Vol. 2010 No. 2, P. 278)
- Thomas, M.R.; Rodriguez, S.R.; Cavallaro, M.R.; Froehlich, O. & Correa e Castro, R.M., 2013 "Loricaria luciae, a new species of whiptail catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraguay and lower Paraná River basins of southeastern South America" (Zootaxa, Vol. 3745 No. 3, P. 375)
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