Mastiglanis asopos
Bockmann, 1994
(Type species)
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 8 cm
Standard length (documented)
65.9 mm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
Temperature
26 - 30 °C
Pará (BRA), Amazonas (BRA)
Brazil, Colombia, Guyana
rio Itabani → rio Urubu | lagoa Sapucua → rio Trombetas | rio Negro ⇒ Amazonas | rio Guamá → baia do Guajará → rio Pará ⇒ Atlantic NE
˜[ -1.460,-56.380 ]
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
Eats plants
nein
Sand
necessary
unknown
present
II - III / (6 -) 7 rays
15 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, round
top and bottom approximately the same length
I / 6 rays
filament
(8 -) 9 soft rays
filament
II - III / (6 -) 7 rays
15 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, round
top and bottom approximately the same length
I / 6 rays
filament
(8 -) 9 soft rays
filament
Sympatric with
Not on the positive list of Brazil in 2012 : The positive list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
30/October/2015
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 415
- Schäfer, Frank: "Mastiglanis asopos"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Dezember 2015 / Januar 2016)
- Bockman, F.A., 1994 "Description of Mastiglanis asopos, a new pimelodid catfish from nothtern Brazil, with comments on phylogenetic relationships inside the subfamily Rhamdiinae (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)" (Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. 107, P. 762)
- Zuanon, J.; Bockmann, F.A. & Sazima, I., 2006 "A remarkable sand-dwelling fish assemblage from central Amazonia, with comments on the evolution of psammophily in South American freshwater fishes" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 4 No. 1, P. 107)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 187)
- Schäfer, F., 2016 "Mastiglanis asopos" (Newsletter Fa. Glaser)
- 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. 91)
- Faustino-Fuster, D.R. & Ortega, H., 2020 "A new species of Mastiglanis Bockmann 1994 (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the Amazon River basin, Peru " (abstract) (Zootaxa, Vol. 4820 No. 2, P. 323)
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