Synonyms
Atero
bagre atero
Bagre blanco pobre
Bagrus piramuta
Bagrus reticulatus
Brachyplatystoma parnahybae
Joroboto
Laulao
Manitoa
Mulher-ingrata
Pira-botão
Piramuta-Antennenwels
Piramutana piramuta
Platystoma vaillantii
Silurus vaillantii?
bagre atero
Bagre blanco pobre
Bagrus piramuta
Bagrus reticulatus
Brachyplatystoma parnahybae
Joroboto
Laulao
Manitoa
Mulher-ingrata
Pira-botão
Piramuta-Antennenwels
Piramutana piramuta
Platystoma vaillantii
Silurus vaillantii?
Length (total)
approx. 130 cm
Standard length (documented)
1,050.0 mm
Recommended tank size
600 cm
Weight
20.000 kg
pH
6.0 - 8.0
➀ Amazonas = rio Solimões -, ➀ río Orinoco basin, lower ➀ rio Xingu, lower ➀ rio Madeira, lower ➀ río Mamoré, lower ➀ río Guaporé = río Iténez, lower ➀ rio Trombetas, lower ➀ rio Negro, lower ➀ río Napo, lower ➀ río Ucayali, lower ➀ río Marañón, lower ➀ rio Tocantins, lower río Cusiana
große Ströme unterhalb der ersten Stromschnellen
große Ströme unterhalb der ersten Stromschnellen
Amazonas (BRA), Amazonas (VEN), Pará (BRA), Rondônia, Beni, Loreto, Delta Amacuro, Monagas, Bolívar (VEN), Anzoátegui, Casanare
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Venezuela
˜[ -3.141,-59.910 ]
Type of water
Clear water, White water, Black water, Brackish water
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
long
iii - iv / 10 rays
17 soft rays
I / 6 rays
straight
9 soft rays
5 - 6 soft rays
iii - iv / 10 rays
17 soft rays
I / 6 rays
straight
9 soft rays
5 - 6 soft rays
Sympatric with
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
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
29/January/2022
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- Lucanus, Oliver: "Endlich wieder Aquarienfische aus Suriname"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Juni/Juli 2017 )
- Valenciennes, 1840 "Siluroïdes" (Histoire naturelle des poissons, Vol. 15, P. 21)
- Cuvier, G.; Laurillard, C.L.; Pierron, J.A.; Louvet, G.P. & Latreille, P.A., 1817 "Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée"
- Kner, R., 1858 "Ichthyologische Beiträge" (Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Bd. 26, P. 382)
- Kner, R., 1858 "Ichthyologische Beiträge" (Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Bd. 26, P. 376)
- Steindachner, Dr. F., 1908 "Über eine während der brasilianischen Expedition entdeckte Brachyplatystoma-Art aus dem Rio Parnahyba und über eine dicht gefleckte und gestrichelte Varietät von Giton fasciatus aus den Gewässern von Santos (Staat Sao Paulo)" (Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Vol. 45, P. 126)
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- Cervigón, F., 1992 "Tiburones, Peces batoideos y Peces óseos" (Guía de Campo de las Especies Comerciales Marinas y de Aguas Salobres de la Costa Septentrional de Sur America, P. 379)
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- Camargo, M. & Victoria, I., 2001 "Os peixes estuarinos da região norte do Brasil: Lista de espécies e considerações sobre sua distribuição geográfica"
- Ferraris, C.J., 2003 "Auchenipteridae, Pimelodidae, Aspredinidae, and Loricariidae" (The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic, Vol. 2, P. 857)
- Lundberg, J.G. & Akama, A., 2005 "Brachyplatystoma capapretum: a new species of goliath catfish from the Amazon basin, with a reclassification of allied catfishes" (Copeia, Vol. 2005 No. 3, P. 498)
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- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 331)
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- Alcalá, C.A.L. & Sánchez-Duarte, P., 2011 "Los Peces del delta del Orinoco" (Fundaciión la Salle de Ciencas Naturales, P. 210)
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- PCF
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