Hypophthalmus oremaculatus
Nani & Fuster, 1947
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 50 cm
Standard length (documented)
390.0 mm
Recommended tank size
300 cm
➀ río Paraná = rio Paraná near Puerto Gaboto, ➀ Amazonas = rio Solimões, ➀ rio Purus = río Purús, ➀ rio Negro, ➀ río Ucayali, río Apure, río de la Plata, ➀ río Paraguay = rio Paraguai, laguna Aguilera, río Bermejo = río Teuco, lago Berurí, río Boconó, ➀ rio Camanaú, ➀ río Caura, ➀ rio Cuieiras, río Cunaviche, rio Envira, laguna Flor Amarilla, río Guariquito, caño Guaritico = caño Maporal, río Itaya, lago do Jacaré, ➀ lago Janauaca, lago do Jaraqui, laguna Larga = laguna Larga Ii, laguna Mozambique, rio Ocói, ➀ río Orituco, río Pao, lagoa Paru, laguna Pavoncito, lago Piauí, río Portuguesa, laguna La Rompia, laguna San Luis, ➀ rio Tefé, laguna El Venado, ➀ lago Ypacarai, lago Ypoa - widespread
Santa Fé, Tarija, Chaco, Formosa, Bolívar (VEN), Apure, Amazonas, Barinas, Portuguesa, Pará (BRA), Amazonas (BRA), Meta, Paraná, Cojedes, Rondônia, Anzoátegui
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru
río Guárico | río Guanare ⇒ río Portuguesa ⇒ río Apure | río Apurito | río Metica → río Meta ⇒ río Orinoco → Caribic ↓ Paraná Parati Grande | rio Curiuaú → rio Negro | rio Trombetas | Paraná Manaquiri → lago Janauaca | rio Candeias → rio Jamarí || río Itonomas → río Guaporé→río Mamoré⇒rio Madeira ⇒⇒ Amazonas→Atlantic NE ↓ rio Salado | río Paray⇒río Paraguay⇒río Paraná→río de la Plata➙Atlantik SE
[ -32.433,-60.809 ]
High above sea level
< 200 m
Eats plants
not known
unknown
present
6-8 + 7-11 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
filament upper
I / 6 (- 7) rays
16 soft rays
6 soft rays
6-8 + 7-11 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
filament upper
I / 6 (- 7) rays
16 soft rays
6 soft rays
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
- Nani, A. & Fuster, M.L., 1947 "Hypophthalmus oremaculatus una nueva especie del orden "Nematognathi" (Pisces, Hypophthal)" (Comunicaciones del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" Buenos Aires, Ciencias Zoológicas) P. 1
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 436
- López, H.L.; Miquelarena,A.M. & Menni, R.C., 2003 "Lista comentada de los peces continentales de la Argentina" (ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica, No. 5, P. 60)
- Menni, R.C., 2004 "Peces y ambientes en la Argentina continental" (Monografías del Museo Argentina Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, No. 5, P. 83)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 333)
- Littmann, M.W.; Azpelicueta, M.; Vanegas Rios, J.A. & Lundberg, J., 2015 "Holotype-based validation, redescription and continental-scale range extension of the South American catfish species Hypophthalmus oremaculatus Nani and Fuster, 1947, with additional information on Hypophthalmus edentatus Spix and Agassiz, 1829 (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae)" (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 164 No. 1, P. 159)
- 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)
- Ota, R.R.; Carvalho Deprá, G. de; Graça, W.J. da & Pavanelli, C.S., 2018 "Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 16 No. 2, P. 81)
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