Guarani: pira = Fisch, tatu=Gürteltier
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 32 cm
Standard length (documented)
275.0 mm
Recommended tank size
180 cm
Concepción, Cordillera, Sapucaí, Paraguai, Central
Paraguay
río Tebicuary | río Tagatyja | arroyo Caañabé | río Aquidaban ⇒ río Paraguay → río Paraná → río de la Plata → Atlantic SE
[ -25.847,-56.628 ]
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: males have longer fins
from genus: Standard
unknown
 
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. 361
- Weber, C., 1986 "Revision de Hypostomus boulengeri (Eigenmann & Kennedy), et deux espèces nouvelles de poissonschats du Paraguay (Pisces, Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (Revue Suisse De Zoologie, Vol. 93 No. 4, P. 987)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; Weber, C. & Pavanelli, C.S., 2010 "A new dark-saddled species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraguay basin" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 8 No. 4, P. 719)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; Tencatt, L.F.C. & Froehlich, O., 2014 "A new unicuspid-toothed species of Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Paraguai basin" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 12 No. 1, P. 103)
- Cardoso, Y.P.; Brancolini, F.; Paracampo, A.; Lizarralde, M.; Covain, R. & Montoya-Burgos, J.I., 2016 "Hypostomus formosae, a new catfish species from the Paraguay River Basin with redescription of H. boulengeri (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 27 No. 1, P. 22)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; Oyakawa, O.T. & Britski, H.a., 2017 "Hypostomus velhochico, a new keeled Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio São Francisco basin in Brazil" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4344 No. 3, P. 571)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; da Silva, H.P. & Troy, W.P., 2018 "Redescription of Hypostomus latirostris (Regan, 1904) with the recognition of a new species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraguay basin, Brazil" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, No. 1079, P. 1)
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