Megalonema platycephalum
Eigenmann, 1912
(Type species)
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 25 cm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Cuzco, Demerara-Berbice, Rupununi, Loreto, Meta, Apure
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela
Río Ucayali ⇒ Amazonas ⇒ Atlantic NE ↓ río Meta → río Orinoco → Caribic ↓
[ 5.262,-59.148 ]
Eats plants
not known
unknown
long
11 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
I / 6 rays
straight
11 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
I / 6 rays
straight
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
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 437
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1912 "The Freshwater Fishes of Britisch Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of Species and the Relation of the Fauna of the Plateau to that of the Lowlands" (Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 5, P. 150)
- Bail, P.Y. Le; Keith, P. & Planquette, P., 2000 "Atlas des poissons d'eau douce de Guyane"
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 335)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 114)
- 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. 93)
- Urbano-Bonilla, A.; Ballen, G.A.; Herrera-R, G.A.; Zamudio, J., Herrera-Collazos; E.E.; DoNascimiento, C.; Prada-Pedreros, S. & Maldonado-Ocampo, A., 2018 "Fishes of the Cusiana River (Meta River basin, Colombia), with an identification key to its species" (ZooKeys, No. 733, P. 80)
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