Pimelodella laticeps
Eigenmann, 1917
Synonyms
Bagre Coví
Length (total)
approx. 15 cm
Standard length (documented)
117.0 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Mendoza, Cordillera, Paraguarí, Buenos Aires, Rio Grande do Sul, Rocha
Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay
río Manduvira → río Paraguay → río Paraná | rio Uruguai = río Uruguay → río de la Plata | rio Guaíba → lagoa dos Patos ➙ Atlantic SE
˜[ -25.659,-56.960 ]
Habitat river width
4.00 - 10.00 m
Flow
small - strong
Copepods (Copepoda), organic matter, Chironomidae (Chironomidae) (larvae), ostracods (Ostracoden), small snails (Gastropoda), vegetable fibers, Chironomidae (Chironomidae), ephemeroptera (Ephemeroptera) (larvae), Schnabelkerfe (Hemiptera), water fleas (Cladocera), beetle (Coleoptera), shells (Bivalvia), decapod (Decapoda), seed, diptera (Diptera) (larvae), Homoptera (Homoptera), diptera (Diptera)
Eats plants
not known
unknown
long
14 - 15 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
I / 6 - 7 rays
slightly convex
14 - 15 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
I / 6 - 7 rays
slightly convex
Sympatric with
Hypostomus paranensis
Rineloricaria catamarcensis
Astyanax asuncionensis
Astyanax eigenmanniorum
Astyanax rutilus
Bryconamericus eigenmanni
Rineloricaria catamarcensis
Astyanax asuncionensis
Astyanax eigenmanniorum
Astyanax rutilus
Bryconamericus eigenmanni
Bryconamericus iheringii
Cheirodon interruptus
Cichlasoma dimerus
Jenynsia multidentata
Oligosarcus jenynsii
Cheirodon interruptus
Cichlasoma dimerus
Jenynsia multidentata
Oligosarcus jenynsii
not known
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
26/July/2017
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 419
- Werner, Uwe: "Welse aus Uruguay (Teil 2)"
(DATZ August 2017)
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1917 "Pimelodella and Typhlobagrus" (Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 7, P. 243)
- Maroñas, M.E.; Brancolini, F. & Sendra, E., 2010 "Diet of Pimelodella laticeps (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) in La Choza stream, Buenos Aires, Argentina"
- Butí, C.; Cancino, F.; Ferullo, S. & Gamundi, C., 2015 "Diversidad y evaluación toxicológica de peces como indicadores de contaminación por mercurio, plomo, cadmio, cobre y arsénico, provincia de Tucumán, República Argentina" (Conservación de la Naturaleza, Vol. 20)
- Nión, H.; Rios, C. & Meneses, P., 2016 "Peces del Uruguay - Lista sistemática y nombres comunes"
- García, M.L.; Solari, L.C. & García de Souza, J.R., 2017 "Feeding ecology of the siluriform Pimelodella laticeps Eigenmann, 1917 in a Pampean stream from Argentina" (Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Vol. 19 No. 2, P. 211)
- 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. 96)
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Many thanks to
for the pictures
1, 2, 3
Eigenmann, Carl H. (PD)
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