Bunocephalus aleuropsis
Cope, 1870
Synonyms
has Bunocephalus melas
Length (total)
approx. 11 cm
Standard length (documented)
91.0 mm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
widespread
Loreto
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela
Amazonas ↓ Río Orinoco
˜[ -3.324,-71.862 ]
Eats plants
not known
unknown
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
- Mees, G.F., 1988 "The genera of the subfamily Bunocephalinae (Pisces, Nematognathi, Aspredinidae)" ( Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) P. 90
- Mees, G.F., 1989 "Notes on the genus Dysichthys, subfamily Bunocephalidae, family Aspridinidae (Pisces, Nematognathi)" (Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) P. 204
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 262
- Cope, Edward D., 1870 "Contribution to the Ichthyology of the Marañon" (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 11, P. 568)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 58)
- Cardoso, A.R., 2010 "Bunocephalus erondinae, a new species of banjo catfish from southern Brazil (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae)" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 8 No. 3, P. 612)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 110)
- Carvalho, T.P.; Cardoso, A.R.; Friel, J.P. & Reis, R.E., 2015 "Two new species of the banjo catfish Bunocephalus Kner (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae) from the upper and middle rio São Francisco basins, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 13 No. 3, P. 509)
- 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. 84)
- Esguícero, A.L.H.; Corrêa e Castro, R.M. & Pereira, T.N.A., 2020 "Bunocephalus hertzi, a new banjo catfish from the upper Rio Paraná basin, Brazil (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae), with the redescription of Bunocephalus larai Ihering, 1930" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4742 No. 1, P. 114)
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