Stauroglanis gouldingi
de Pinna, 1989
(Type species)
Synonyms
Ghost candiru
Length (total)
approx. 4 cm
Standard length (documented)
23.8 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Eats plants
not known
unknown
Sympatric with
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. 278
- de Pinna, M.C.C., 1989 "A new scarcoglanidine catfish, phylogeny of its subfamily, and an appraisal of the phyletic status of the Trichomycterinae (Teleostei, Trichomycteridae)" (American Museum Novitates, No. 2950, P. 7)
- Zuanon, J.; Bockmann, F.A. & Sazima, I., 2006 "A remarkable sand-dwelling fish assemblage from central Amazonia, with comments on the evolution of psammophily in South American freshwater fishes" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 4 No. 1, P. 107)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (II)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 413)
- Mattos, J.L.O. de; Costa, W.J.E.M. & Souza Gama, C. de, 2008 "A new minature species of Ammoglanis (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Brazilian Amazon" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 19 No. 2, P. 161)
- Datovo, A. & Bockman F.A., 2010 "Dorsolateral head muscles of the catfish families Nematogenyidae and Trichomycteridae (Siluriformes: Loricarioidei): Comparative anatomy and phylogenetic analysis" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 2 No. 8, P. 193)
- Mattos, J.L.O. de & Lima, S.M.Q., 2012 "Microcambeva draco, a new species from northeastern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 21 No.3, P. 233)
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