Hypophthalmus marginatus
Valenciennes, 1840
Synonyms
Bagre paisano
Length (total)
approx. 46 cm
Standard length (documented)
412.0 mm
Recommended tank size
300 cm
Corantijn River, río Orinoco-, rio Amazonas-, rio Solimões-Einzug, río Apure, río Guariquito, caño Cocito, caño Manamo, caño Macareo
Amazonas, Pará, Loreto, Napo, Apure, Guárico, Portuguesa, Delta Amacuro, Bolivar
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Suriname, Perú, Venezuela
˜[ 4.926,-52.339 ]
Type of water
White water
Eats plants
not known
unknown
(56 -) 59 - 60 (- 67) soft rays
greatly incised / concave
little longer at the top than at the bottom
I / 6 rays
(12 -) 14 - 15 (- 16) soft rays
(7 -) 6 soft rays
greatly incised / concave
little longer at the top than at the bottom
I / 6 rays
(12 -) 14 - 15 (- 16) soft rays
(7 -) 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
- 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
- Valenciennes, 1840 "Siluroïdes" (Histoire naturelle des Poissons, Vol. 15, P. 225)
- 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)
- Alcalá, C.A.L. & Sánchez-Duarte, P., 2011 "Los Peces del delta del Orinoco" (Fundaciión la Salle de Ciencas Naturales, P. 217)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 114)
- 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. 160)
- 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)
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