dedicated Alfred Russel Wallace
Synonyms
Driftwood Catfish
Wallace's Shoe Head Catfish
Wallace's Shoe Head Catfish
Length (total)
approx. 25 cm
Standard length (documented)
206.0 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
upper ➀ rio Negro near São Pedro, ➀ Amazonas = rio Solimões, caño Bocachica, laguna Candela, caño Caripo, caño Cuchakén, rio Curuá, Paraná Marauiá, ➀ río Mawarinuma, río Siapa basin, rio Ararirá, igarapé Miratuca, igarapé Jacaré, igarapé Pacuí Miri, caño El Viento, unnamed creek to ➀ río Ucayali
igarapé da Ibará, caño Chola, caño Loro
igarapé da Ibará, caño Chola, caño Loro
Amazonas (BRA), Amazonas (VEN), Pará (BRA), Loreto
Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela
río Baria → río Pasimoni → río Casiquare | rio Pimichim | igarapé Jaú ⇒ rio Negro | rio Tapajós ⇒ Amazonas | rio Guamá → baia do Guajará → rio Pará ⇒ Atlantic NE ↓
río Atabapo → río Guaviare | caño El Cedro → río Yucaito → río Yucao → río Meta ⇒ río Orinoco → Caribic ↓
˜[ -0.250,-66.767 ]
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
Eats plants
not known
from genus: In der Laichzeit Ausbildung einer verlängerten Dorsale, erste Strahlen der Afterflosse modifiziert ähnlich Gonopodium
unknown
 
present
iii - iv / (35 -) 41 (- 43) rays
7 + 8-9 soft rays
slightly convex
I / 6 rays
9 (- 11) soft rays
6 soft rays
iii - iv / (35 -) 41 (- 43) rays
7 + 8-9 soft rays
slightly convex
I / 6 rays
9 (- 11) soft rays
6 soft rays
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
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
02/November/2016
- Vari, R.P. & Ferraris, C.J., Jr., 2006 "The catfish genus Tetranematichthys (Auchenipteridae)" (Copeia, Vol. 2006 No. 2, P. 168)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 444)
- Peixoto, L.A.W. & Wosiacki, W.B., 2010 "Description of a new species of Tetranematichthys (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) from the lower Amazon basin, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 8 No. 1, P. 69)
- 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. 87)
- PCF
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