Synonyms
Pygidium stellatum
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 9 cm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Quebrada Sarjento, quebrado Guamal, río Guaduas, quebrada Cristalinas
Cundinamarca
Colombia
Río Magdalena ➙ Caribic
˜[ 5.116,-74.646 ]
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
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. 284
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1918 "The Pygidiidae, a family of South American catfishes" (Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 7 No. 5, P. 308)
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1918 "The Pygidiidae, a family of South American catfishes" (Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 7 No. 5, P. 389)
- 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. 424)
- Castellanos-Morales, C.A., 2008 "Trichomycterus uisae: a new species of hypogean catfish (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the northeasten Andean Cordillera of Colombia" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 6 No. 3, P. 312)
- 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. 70)
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