Chaetostoma bifurcum
Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga-Salazar & López-Fernández, 2015
bi = two, furca (lat.) = fork
Synonyms
raspa
Length (total)
approx. 16 cm
Standard length (documented)
140.1 mm
Recommended tank size
120 cm
Esmeraldas, Pichincha, Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas, Imbabura, Los Ríos, El Oro, Tumbes
Ecuador, Peru
río Pozuelos → río Catarama | río Baba → río Babahoyo → río Guayas | ( río Caoni → río Blanco | río Guayllabamba ⇒ río Esmeraldas) | río Piloto → estero de Santa Rosa → canal de Jambelí | rio Tumbes ⇒ Pacific
[ -0.352,-79.215 ]
High above sea level
100 - 650 m
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: Male have a more angular head and the edge of their snout is more thick
from genus: Standard
unknown
4 (- 5) soft rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 8 rays
slightly convex
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 8 rays
slightly convex
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
not known
- Behr, Norman: "Unterwegs in Ecuador – Teil I: Die westlichen Andenhänge"
(Amazonas März / April 2024)
- Lujan, N.K.; Meza-Vargas, V.; Astudillo-Clavijo, V. & ´López-Fernández, H., 2015 "A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes" (Copeia, Vol. 103 No. 3, P. 664)
- Valenzuela1, S.; Britzke, R.; Chumbe-Nolasco, L.D.; Apaza, J.; Meza-Vargas, V.; Armas, M.; Cortijo, A.M. & Ortega, H., 2023 "Fish fauna of the trans-Andean Tumbes river basin in northern Peru" (Check List, Vol. 19 No. 1, P. 95)
- PCF
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