Ancistrus spinosus
Meek & Hildebrand, 1916
Synonyms
unknown
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 20 cm
Standard length (documented)
176.0 mm
Recommended tank size
120 cm
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: The males have more and longer tentacle on the head. Often females have only short tentacle/stublles anlong the mouth.
from genus: Standard
unknown
present
I / 4 rays
I / 7 rays
I / 4 rays
I / 7 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. 378
- Meek, S.E. & Hildebrand, S.F., 1916 "The Fishes of the Fresh Waters of Panama" (Publication of Field Museum of Natural History, Vol. 10 No. 15, P. 252)
- 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. 72)
- Power, M.E., 1984 "Habitat Quality and the Distribution of Algae-Grazing Catfish in a Panamanian Stream" (Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 53 No. 2, P. 358)
- 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. 8)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 224)
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