Chaetostoma alternifasciatum
Chaetostoma vagum
Fowler, 1943
vagus - wanderer
Synonyms
data deficient
Length (total)
approx. 13 cm
Standard length (documented)
99.0 mm
Recommended tank size
100 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
I / 5 rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 8 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 8 rays
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. 382
- Fowler, Henry W., 1943 "A Collection of Fresh-Water Fishes from Colombia, Obtained Chiefly by Brother Nicéforo Maria " (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 95, P. 258)
- Salcedo, Norma J., 2006 "Two new species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Huallaga River in central Peru" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 17 No. 3, P. 218)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 231)
- 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)
- 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. 80)
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