albo - white, margin; because of the fin seams
Synonyms
Pseudopimelodus albomarginatus
Length (total)
approx. 12 cm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
long
10 soft rays
little longer at the top than at the bottom
fin edging: white 
I / 6 rays
slightly convex
fin edging: white 
10 soft rays
little longer at the top than at the bottom
fin edging: white 
I / 6 rays
slightly convex
fin edging: white 
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. 402
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1912 "The Freshwater Fishes of British Guiana, including a Study of the ecological Grouping of Species, and the Relation of the Fauna of the Plateau to that of the Lowlands" (Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 5, P. 153)
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1910 "Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of tropical and south temperate America" (Indiana University, P. 384)
- Ibarra, M. & Stewart, D.J., 1987 "Catalogue of type specimens of recent fishes in Field Museum of Natural History" (Field Museum of Natural History, Vol. 35, P. 71)
- Ferraris, C.J. Jr. & Vari, R.P. , 1992 "Catalog of type specimens of recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution" (Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, No. 535, P. 37)
- Bail, P.Y. Le; Keith, P. & Planquette, P., 2000 "Atlas des poissons d'eau douce de Guyane"
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 353)
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Many thanks to
for the pictures
Eigenmann, Carl H. (PD)
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