Synonyms
Pimelodus holomelas
Rhamdia tenella
Rhamdia tenella
Length (total)
approx. 38 cm
Standard length (documented)
330.0 mm
Recommended tank size
250 cm
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
9 - 11 soft rays
I / 6 rays
8 soft rays
6 soft rays
I / 6 rays
8 soft rays
6 soft rays
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
- Bleeker, P., 1858 "De visschen van den Indischen Archipel. Beschreven en toegelicht. Siluri" (Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo- Neêrlandicae) P. 1
- Silfvergrip, A.M.C. , 1996 "A systematic revision of the neotropical catfish genus Rhamdia (Teleostei, Pimelodidae)" P. 131
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 423
- Boeseman, M., 1972 "Notes On South American Catfishes, Including Remarks On Valencienne S And Bleeker Types In The Leiden Museum " (Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden), Vol. 47 No. 23, P. 307)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 199)
- Hernández, C.L.; Lara, A.O.; Garcés, G.C.S. & Alford, M.H., 2015 "Genetic and morphometric evidence for the recognition of several recently synonymized species of Trans-Andean Rhamdia (Pisces: Siluriformes: Heptapteridae)" (Copeia, Vol. 103 No. 3, P. 570)
- 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. 92)
- Angrizani, R.C. & Malabarba, L.R., 2018 "Morphology and molecular data reveal the presence of two new species under Rhamdia quelen (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) species complex" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4388 No. 1, P. 44)
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