Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 5 cm
Standard length (documented)
46.0 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
7 soft rays
greatly convex
8 soft rays
5 soft rays
greatly convex
8 soft rays
5 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
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 276
- 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. 130)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 410)
- 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. 71)
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