Pimelodus coprophagus
Schultz, 1944
because the feeding habits
Synonyms
Pimelodus clarias coprophagus
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 30 cm
Standard length (documented)
232.9 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
unknown
8 - 10 soft rays
15 soft rays
II / 6 rays
8 - 10 soft rays
5 soft rays
15 soft rays
II / 6 rays
8 - 10 soft rays
5 soft rays
not known
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 439
- Schultz, Leonard P., 1944 "The catfishes of Venezuela, with description of thirty-eight new forms" (Proceedings of the National Museum, Vol. 94, P. 203)
- 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)
- Costa e Silva, T.; Ribeiro, F.V.R.; Lucena, C.A.S. & Lucinda, P.H.F., 2018 "Pimelodus speciosus (Teleostei: Pimelodidae), a new catfish species from the rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 28, No. 2, P. 105)
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