Synonyms
Carachama (ECU)
Chaetostoma dermorhynchum
Chaetostoma dermorhynchum
data deficient
Length (total)
approx. 25 cm
Standard length (documented)
182.0 mm
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 / 4 - 5 rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
fin edges: white 
I / 8 - 9 rays
straight
fin edge: white 
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
I / 4 - 5 rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
fin edges: white 
I / 8 - 9 rays
straight
fin edge: white 
6 soft rays
5 soft 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. 380
- Boulenger, G.A., 1887 "An account of the fishes collected by Mr. C. Buckley in eastern Ecuador" (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, P. 277)
- Regan, C. Tate, 1904 "A monograph of the Fishes of the Family Loricariidae" (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 17/1903-06, Vol. 17, P. 248)
- 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. 60)
- Salcedo, Norma J., 2006 "New Species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Central Peru" (Copeia, No. 1, P. 62)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 228)
- 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. 664)
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Many thanks to
for the pictures
1, 2, 3
G. A. Boulenger (PD)
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