Rhamdia muelleri
Günther, 1864
Synonyms
Pimelodus knerii
Pimelodus muelleri
Rhamdia knerii
Rhamdia obesa
Pimelodus muelleri
Rhamdia knerii
Rhamdia obesa
Length (total)
approx. 25 cm
Standard length (documented)
208.0 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Pará, Amazonas, Meta, Loreto
Brazil, Guyana, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
rio Guamá → baia do Guajará → rio Pará | rio Madeira → Amazonas ⇒ Atlantic NE ↓ río Meta → río Orinoco → Caribic ↓
˜[ -2.734,-47.907 ]
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
Eats plants
not known
unknown
long
10 - 11 soft rays
I / 6 rays
9 soft rays
6 soft rays
10 - 11 soft rays
I / 6 rays
9 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
- Silfvergrip, A.M.C. , 1996 "A systematic revision of the neotropical catfish genus Rhamdia (Teleostei, Pimelodidae)" P. 23
- 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
- Günther, Dr. Albert, 1864 "Siluridae" (Catalogue of the Physostomi in the Collection of the British Museum, P. 119)
- Eigenmann, C.H. & Eigenmann, R.S., 1888 "Preliminary Notes on South American Nemotognathi" (Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1 Ser. 2, P. 124)
- 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)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 114)
- 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)
- 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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