Heptapterus tenuis
Mees, 1986
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 11 cm
Standard length (documented)
85.0 mm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
Creek Cascade Moyen
Sipaliwini, Marowijne
French Guiana, Venezuela
Maroni River = Marowijne River ➙ Atlantic NE
˜[ 5.467,-54.074 ]
Eats plants
not known
unknown
not known
- Mees, G.F., 1986 "Records of Auchenipteridae and Pimelodidae from French Guiana (Pisces, Nematognathi)" (Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Series C, Biological and Medical Sciences)) P. 311
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 413
- Bail, P.Y. Le; Keith, P. & Planquette, P., 2000 "Atlas des poissons d'eau douce de Guyane"
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 184)
- Donascimiento, C. & Milani, N., 2008 "The Venezuelan species of Phenacorhamdia (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae), with the description of two new species and a remarkable new tooth morphology for siluriforms" (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 157 No. 1, P. 165)
- Faustino-Fuster, D.R.; Bockmann, F.A. & Malabarba, L.R., 2019 "Two new species of Heptapterus Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the Uruguay River basin, Brazil" (Journal of Fish Biology, P. 3)
- Bild Heptapterus tenuis bei INPN
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