conquistador (es) - conqueror; because of the well armored spines
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 5 cm
Standard length (documented)
38.6 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
(Prefered) River depth
< 2.00 m
Type of water
Clear water, Black water
Flow
small
Substrate
sand
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
Sympatric with
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. 412
- Lundberg, J.G.; Bornbusch, A.H. & Mago-Leccia, F., 1991 "Gladioglanis conquistador N. Sp. from Ecuador with Diagnoses of the Subfamilies Rhamdiinae Bleeker and Pseudopimelodinae N. Subf. (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)" (Copeia, Vol. 1991 No. 1, P. 190)
- Galvis, G.; Mojica, J.I.; Doque, S.R.; Castellanos, C.; Sánchez-Duarte, P.; Arce, M.; Gutiérrez, Á.; Jiménez, L.F.; Santos, M.; Vejarano, S.; Arbeláez, F.; Prieto, E. & Leiva,, 2006 "Peces del medio Amazonas - Región de Leticia" (Conservación Internacional, P. 284)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 183)
- Rocha, M.S.; Ribeiro de Oliveira, R. & Rapp Py-Daniel, L.H., 2008 "A new species of Gladioglanis Ferraris & Mago-Leccia from rio Aripuanã, Amazonas, Brazil (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae)" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 6 No 3, P. 433)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 114)
- 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)
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