Synonyms
Megalonema punctatum
Megalonema robustum
Megalonema robustum
Length (total)
approx. 30 cm
Standard length (documented)
234.1 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
unknown
 
8 soft rays
15 soft rays
II / 6 rays
9 - 10 soft rays
5 soft rays
15 soft rays
II / 6 rays
9 - 10 soft rays
5 soft rays
not known
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- Meek S.E. & Hildebrand, S.F., 1913 "New Species of Fishes from Panama" (Publications of Field Museum Natural History, Vol. 10 No. 8, P. 78)
- Ibarra, M. & Stewart, D.J., 1987 "Catalogue of type specimens of recent fishes in Field Museum of Natural History" (Field Museum of Natural History, Vol. 35, P. 55)
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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. 339)
- Azpelicueta, de las M.; Lundberg, John G. & Loureiro, Marcelo, 2008 "Pimelodus pintado (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae), a new species of catfish from affluent rivers of Laguna Merín, Uruguay, South America" (abstract) (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 157, P. 159)
- Ribeiro, F.R.V.; de Lucena, C.A.S. & Oyakawa, O.T., 2011 "A new species of Pimelodus La Cépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from rio Ribeira de Iguape basin, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 9 No. 1, P. 128)
- Villa-Navarro, F.A.; Acero, A.P.; Cala Cala, Plutarco, 2017 "Taxonomic review of Trans-Andean species of Pimelodus (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae), with the descriptions of two new species" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4299 No. 3, P. 339)
- 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. 94)
- PCF
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