Trachelyopterus peloichthys
Schultz, 1944
peloichthys - because its living in very muddy bottoms with much vegetable debris
Synonyms
Trachycorystes insignis peloichthys
Length (total)
approx. 20 cm
Standard length (documented)
161.0 mm
Recommended tank size
120 cm
Temperature
25 - 29 °C
Substrate
mud
In water
vegetable debris
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
Eats plants
not known
unknown
iii / (23 -) 25 rays
15 soft rays
straight
I / 6 rays
(7 -) 8 soft rays
5 soft rays
15 soft rays
straight
I / 6 rays
(7 -) 8 soft rays
5 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. 478
- Schultz, Leonard P., 1944 "The catfishes of Venezuela, with descriptions of thirty-eight new forms" (Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 94, P. 236)
- Ferraris, C.J. Jr. & Vari, R.P. , 1992 "Catalog of type specimens of recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution" (Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, No. 535, P. 11)
- Galvis, G.; Mojica, J.I.; & Camargo, M., 1997 "Peces del Catatumbo" (Asociación Cravo Norte, P. 58)
- 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)
- 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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