Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 16 cm
Standard length (documented)
135.0 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
long
10 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 6 rays
10 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 6 rays
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. 420
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1907 "On Further Collections of Fishes from Paraguay" (Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 4, P. 114)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 193)
- Britski, H.A.; Silimon, K.Z.S. & Lopes, B.S., 2007 "Peixes do Pantanal-Manual de Identificação"
- Aguilera, G. & Azpelicueta, M. de las M., 2015 "First record of Pimelodella mucosa Eigenmann & Ward, 1907 (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) in Formosa, Argentina and comments on the geographical distribution of P. howesi Fowler, 1940" (CheckList, Vol. 11 No 5, P. 1757)
- 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. 97)
Many thanks to
for the pictures
Eigenmann, Carl H. (PD)
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