Synonyms
Black catfish
Length (total)
approx. 25 cm
Standard length (documented)
213.0 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Rio Grande do Sul, Río Negro, Durazno, Flores, Soriano
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
laguna Merín → canal São Gonçalo | rio Guaíba ⇒ lagoa dos Patos | rio Três Forquilhas → lagoa dos Quadros → rio Tramandaí | río Uruguay → río de la Plata ⇒ Atlantic SE
˜[ -29.967,-51.250 ]
Substrate
sand, mud, clay
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
beetle (Coleoptera), ephemeroptera (Ephemeroptera), Trichoptera (Trichoptera), , arthropod (Arthropoda), small catfishes (Siluriformes), Schnabelkerfe (Hemiptera), water fleas (Cladocera), woodlice (Isopoda), decapod (Decapoda), leech (Hirudinea), small fishes, small snails (Gastropoda), shells (Bivalvia), spider (Arachnida), diptera (Diptera)
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
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
- Bertoletti, J.J.; da Silva, J.F.P. & Pereira, E.H.L., 1995 "A new species of the catfish genus Trachelyopterus (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae) from southern Brazil" (Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie) P. 71
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 478
- Meisner, A.D.; Burns, J.R.; Weitzman, S.H. & Malabarba, L.R., 2000 "Morphology and histology of the male reproductive system in two species of internally inseminating South American catfishes,Trachelyopterus lucenai andT. galeatus (Teleostei: Auchenipteridae)" (Journal of Morphology, Vol. 246 No. 2, P. 133)
- Burns, J.R.; Meisner, A.D.; Weitzman, S.H. & Malabarba, L.R., 2002 "Sperm and Spermatozeugma Ultrastructure in the Inseminating Catfish, Trachelyopterus lucenai (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae)" (Copeia, Vol. 2002 No. 1, P. 173)
- Moresco, A. & Bemvenuti, M. de A, 2005 "Morphologic features and feeding analysis of the black catfish Trachelyopterus lucenai Bertoletti, Pezzi da Silva & Pereira (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae)" (Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 80)
- Schultz Artioli, L.G. & Maia, R., 2010 "Pisces, Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae, Trachelyopterus lucenai Bertoletti, Pezzi da Silva & Pereira, 1995: historical occurrence and distribution extension" (CheckList, Vol. 6 No. 4, P. 515)
- Porciuncula, R.A. & Quintela, F., 2010 "A Record of Invasive Black Catfish (Trachelyopterus lucenai) Predation by the Neotropical River Otter (Lontra longicaudis) in Restinga of Rio Grande, Southern Brazil" (IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin, Vol. 27 No. 1)
- Volcan, M.V.; Krause Lanés, L.E.; Gonçalves, Â.C.; Fonseca, A.P. da & Cirne, M.P., 2012 "The fish fauna of the Corrientes stream basin, Patos lagoon system, state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil" (CheckList, Vol. 8 No. 1, P. 81)
- Maia, R.; Artioli, L.G.S. & Hartz, S.M., 2013 "Diet and reproductive dynamics of Trachelyopterus lucenai (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) in subtropical coastal lagoons in southern Brazil" (Zoologia (Curitiba), Vol. 30 No. 3)
- Serra, S.; Bessonart, J.; Mello, F.T. de; Duarte, A.; Malabarba, L.& Loureiro, M. , 2014 "Peces del río Negro"
- Corrêa, F.; de Oliveira, E.F.; Tuchtenhagen, T.; Pouey, J. & Piedras, S., 2015 "Ichthyofauna of the hydrographic basin of the Chasqueiro Stream (Mirim Lagoon system, southern Brazil): generating subsidies for conservation and management" (Biozs Nroztopica, Vol. 15 No. 4)
- Bertaco, V.A.; Ferrer, J.; Carvalho, F.R. & Malabarba, L.R., 2016 "Article Inventory of the freshwater fishes from a densely collected area in South America —a case study of the current knowledge of Neotropical fish diversity" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4138 No. 3, P. 416)
- Nión, H.; Rios, C. & Meneses, P., 2016 "Peces del Uruguay - Lista sistemática y nombres comunes"
- PCF
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