Length (total)
approx. 30 cm
Standard length (documented)
195.0 mm
Recommended tank size
200 cm
Bolívar (VEN), Sipaliwini
Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, Venezuela
Río Cuyuní ➙ Essequibo River | Coeroeni River ➙ Corantijn River ⇒ Atlantic NE
[ 3.325,-54.063 ]
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
detritus, inverbrates (aquatic) (invertebrates (aquatic)), inverbrates (terrestrial) (invertebrates (terrestris)), vegetable fibers, algae
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
present
iv - vi / (8 -) 10 (- 11) rays
7 + 8 soft rays
incised / concave, round to greatly incised / concave, round
little longer at the bottom than at the top
II / 6 (- 7) rays
(8 -) 9 (- 11) soft rays
6 soft rays
iv - vi / (8 -) 10 (- 11) rays
7 + 8 soft rays
incised / concave, round to greatly incised / concave, round
little longer at the bottom than at the top
II / 6 (- 7) rays
(8 -) 9 (- 11) soft rays
6 soft rays
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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- DoNascimiento, C.; Herrera-Callazos, E.E.; Herrera-R., G.A.; Ortega-Lara, A.; Villa-Navarro, F.A.; Oviedo, J.S.U. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., 2017 "Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem - Species deleted from the Colombian continental ichthyofauna" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 22)
- PCF
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