Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 14 cm
Standard length (documented)
120.7 mm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
8 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
9 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
9 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. 273
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1922 "On a new genus and two new species of Pygidiidae, a family of South American nematognaths" (Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, Vol. 22, P. 113)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 403)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 110)
- DoNascimiento, 2015 "Morphological Evidence for the Monophyly of the Subfamily of Parasitic Catfishes Stegophilinae (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) and Phylogenetic Diagnoses of Its Genera" (Copeia, Vol. 103 No. 4, P. 941)
Many thanks to
for the pictures
Eigenmann (1922) (PD)
1, 2, 3
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