Doraops zuloagai
Schultz, 1944
(Type species)
dedicated Dr. Guillermo Zuloaga (Standard Oil Co.)
Length (total)
approx. 55 cm
Standard length (documented)
460.0 mm
Recommended tank size
250 cm
Temperature
25 - 29 °C
Habitat river width
~60.00 m
(Prefered) River depth
~4.50 m
Substrate
mud, rocks
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
cancer (Crustacea), small snails (Gastropoda)
Eats plants
not known
unknown
present
iv / 8 (- 10) rays
15 soft rays
II / 5 rays
9 soft rays
iv / 8 (- 10) rays
15 soft rays
II / 5 rays
9 soft 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. 460
- Schultz, Leonard P., 1944 "The catfishes of Venezuela, with description of thirty-eight new forms" (Proceedings of the National Museum, Vol. 94, P. 271)
- Galvis, G.; Mojica, J.I.; & Camargo, M., 1997 "Peces del Catatumbo" (Asociación Cravo Norte, P. 56)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 170)
- Birindelli, José L.O., 2014 "Phylogenetic relationships of the South American Doradoidea (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes)" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 12 No. 3, P. 536)
- Reis, R.E.; Albert, J.S.; Di Dario, F.; Mincarone, M.M.; Petry, P. & Rocha, L.A., 2016 "Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America" (Journal of Fish Biology, P. 16)
- 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" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 633)
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