Pimelodella cristata
Müller & Troschel, 1848
(Type species)
Synonyms
Komairu
liba-dyaki
liba-dyaki
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 45 cm
Standard length (documented)
340.0 mm
Recommended tank size
300 cm
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
detritus, insects, terrestrial, inverbrates (terrestrial) (invertebrates (terrestris)), insects, aquatic, fishes, inverbrates (aquatic) (invertebrates (aquatic)), inverbrates (invertebrates ), vegetable fibers, (sand)
Eats plants
not known
unknown
long
15 soft rays
greatly incised / concave
round down, pointed above
I / 6 rays
convex
15 soft rays
greatly incised / concave
round down, pointed above
I / 6 rays
convex
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. 315
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 417
- Werner, Uwe: "Nicht-Cichliden‘ aus Oyapoque und Kapiri"
(DATZ Oktober 2020)
- Schomburgk, M.R.. (nach Müller, J. & Troschel), 1848 "Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844 : nebst einer Fauna und Flora Guiana's nach Vorlagen von Johannes Müller, Ehrenberg, Erichson, Klotzsch, Troschel, Cabanis und Andern"
- Diaz, F.R.; Soneira, P.; Almirón, A.; Casciotta, J.; Gonzalez, A. & Sanchez, S., 2008 "First record of Pimelodella taenioptera Miranda Ribeiro, 1914 (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae) from the río Paraná above río Paraguay confluence, Argentina"
- Azpelicueta, M. de las M. & Koerber, S., 2015 "On some freshwater fish species reported by Perugia (1891) from Argentina" ( aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, Vol. 21 No. 1, P. 40)
- Slobodian, V.; Akama, A. & Dutra, G.M., 2017 "A new species of Pimelodella (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the Guiana Shield, Brazil" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4338 No. 1, P. 95)
- 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)
- Urbano-Bonilla, A.; Ballen, G.A.; Herrera-R, G.A.; Zamudio, J., Herrera-Collazos; E.E.; DoNascimiento, C.; Prada-Pedreros, S. & Maldonado-Ocampo, A., 2018 "Fishes of the Cusiana River (Meta River basin, Colombia), with an identification key to its species" (ZooKeys, No. 733, P. 78)
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Eigenmann, Carl H. (PD)
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