Chaetostoma lepturum
Regan, 1912
leptos (gr.) - slender, ourón (gr.) - tail
Synonyms
Chaetostomus lepturus
endangered
Length (total)
approx. 22 cm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: Male have a more angular head and the edge of their snout is more thick
from genus: Standard
unknown
present
I / 5 rays
to slightly incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 8 rays
straight
dark point at the base of the first dorsal ray
I / 5 rays
to slightly incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 8 rays
straight
dark point at the base of the first dorsal ray
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. 380
- Regan, C. Tate, 1912 "Descriptions of new Fishes of the Familiy Loricariidae in the British Museum Collection" (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 3 - 4, P. 667)
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1922 "The fishes of western South America. Part I. The fresh-water fishes of northwestern South America, including Colombia, Panama, and the Pacific slopes of Ecuador and Peru, together with an appendix upon the fishes of the Rio Meta in Colombia" (Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 9, P. 86)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H., 1980 "Classification and catalogue of the mailed Loricariidae (Pisces, Siluriformes)" (Verslagen en technische Gegevens. Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie, No. 22, P. 61)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 229)
- Lujan, N.K.; Meza-Vargas, V.; Astudillo-Clavijo, V. & ´López-Fernández, H., 2015 "A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes" (Copeia, Vol. 103 No. 3, P. 666)
- 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. 79)
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C. Tate Regan (1912) (PD)
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