Trichomycterus piurae
Eigenmann, 1922
according to the origin río Piura
Synonyms
Pygidium punctulatum piurae
Length (total)
approx. 13 cm
Standard length (documented)
101.0 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Eats plants
not known
unknown
9 soft rays
III / 8 rays I
III / 8 rays I
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. 283
- 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. 63)
- 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. 73)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 421)
- García-Melo, L.J.; Villa-Navarro, F.A. & DoNascimiento, 2016 "A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the upper río Magdalena basin, Colombia" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4117, P. 237)
- Reis, R.E.; Albert, J.S.; Di Dario, F.; Mincarone, M.M.; Petry, P. & Rocha, L.A., 2016 "Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America" (Journal of Fish Biology, P. 17)
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