Brachyrhamdia imitator
Myers, 1927
(Type species)
because of the similarity to Corydoras melanistus
Synonyms
False Cory
False Corydoras
Pimelodella imitator
False Corydoras
Pimelodella imitator
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 9 cm
Standard length (documented)
54.0 mm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
Temperature
25 - 29 °C
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
Eats plants
not known
unknown
long
iii - v / (6 -) 7 (- 9) rays
(12 -) 7 + 8 soft rays
incised / concave, pointed
I / 6 rays
7 soft rays
6 soft rays
iii - v / (6 -) 7 (- 9) rays
(12 -) 7 + 8 soft rays
incised / concave, pointed
I / 6 rays
7 soft rays
6 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. 410
- Seidel, Ingo: "Bloß nicht auffallen!"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Oktober/November 2018)
- Myers, George S., 1927 "Descriptions of New South American Fresh-Water Fishes collected by Dr. Carl Ternetz" (Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. 68, P. 123)
- Lundberg, J.G. & McDade, L.A., 1986 "On the South American catfish Brachyrhamdia imitator Myers (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae), with phylogenetic evidence for a large intrafamilial lineage" (Notulae Naturae, No. 436, P. 1)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 181)
- Slobodian, F.A. & Bockmann, V., 2013 "A new Brachyrhamdia (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from Rio Japurá basin, Brazil, with comments on its phylogenetic affinities, biogeography and mimicry in the genus" (Zootaxa, Vol. 3717 No. 1, P. 20)
- 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. 90)
- PCF
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