Synonyms
Ageneiosus caucanus
Ageneiosus freiei
Ageneiosus virgo
Ageneiosus freiei
Ageneiosus virgo
Length (total)
approx. 50 cm
Standard length (documented)
429.8 mm
Recommended tank size
250 cm
Weight
0.972 kg
Antioquia, Bolívar, Chóco, Darién, Zulia
Colombia, Panama, Venezuela
río Magdalena | río Atrato | río Santa Ana ➙ lago de Maracaibo ⇒ Caribic ↓
río Tuira ➙ Pacific
˜[ 9.804,-71.527 ]
Substrate
mud
small fishes, decapod (Decapoda), cancer (Crustacea), insects
Eats plants
not known
from genus: M mit (temporär?) verlängerter Dorsale
unknown
 
(35 -) 38 - 39 (- 43) soft rays
I / 6 rays
13 soft rays
6 soft rays
I / 6 rays
13 soft rays
6 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. 472
- Lütken, Dr. Chr., 1874 "Nye eller mindre vel kjendte Malleformer fra forskjellige Verdensdele" (Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn fpr Aaret, Vol. 36, P. 190)
- Galvis, G.; Mojica, J.I.; & Camargo, M., 1997 "Peces del Catatumbo" (Asociación Cravo Norte, P. 74)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 70)
- Ribeiro, F.R.V. & Rapp Py-Daniel, L.H., 2010 "Ageneiosus uranophthalmus, a new species of auchenipterid catfish (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) from river channels of the central Amazon basin, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 8 No. 1, P. 103)
- Ribeiro, F.R.V.; Rapp Py-Daniel, L. & Walsh, S.J., 2017 "Taxonomic revision of the South American catfish genus Ageneiosus (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) with the description of four new species" (Journal of Fish Biology, P. 58)
- 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. 86)
- Restrepo-Escobar, N.; Yepes-Aceedo, A.J. & Márquez, E.J., 2021 "Population genetics of three threatened catfish species in heterogeneous environments of the Cauca River, Colombia" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 19 No. 1)
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Steindachner, Franz (1879) (PD)
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