Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 4 cm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
8 soft rays
8 soft rays
6 soft rays
8 soft rays
6 soft rays
Not on the positive list of Brazil in 2012 : The positive list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
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- Myers, George S., 1927 "Descriptions of New South American Fresh-Water Fishes collected by Dr. Carl Ternetz" (Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. 68, P. 129)
- Bail, P.Y. Le; Keith, P. & Planquette, P., 2000 "Atlas des poissons d'eau douce de Guyane"
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 409)
- Cochran, P.A.; Wagner, R.J. & Golden, E.J., 2015 "The feeding behavior of a South American parasitic catfish ( Ochmacanthus alternus )" (Journal of Freshwater Ecology, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 417)
- 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. 947)
- Neto, C.S. & Pinna, M. de, 2016 "Redescription of Ochmacanthus batrachostoma (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1912) (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae): a possible case of incipient paedomorphism" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 14 No. 1, P. 8)
- 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. 79)
- Urbano-Bonilla, A.; Ballen, G.A.; Herrera-R, G.A.; Zamudio, J., Herrera-Collazos; E.E.; DoNascimiento, C.; Prada-Pedreros, S. & Maldonado-Ocampo, A., 2018 "Fishes of the Cusiana River (Meta River basin, Colombia), with an identification key to its species" (ZooKeys, No. 733, P. 78)
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