Synonyms
Laubwels
Length (total)
approx. 13 cm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Canelos
Pastaza
Ecuador, Colombia, Peru
Río Bobonaza ➙ río Pastaza ➙ río Marañon
˜[ -1.589,-77.747 ]
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
not known
- Oychynnyk, M.M., 1967 "Freshwater fishes of Ecuador and perspective for development of fish cultivation" (Latin American Study Center, State University of Michigan) P. 36
- 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. 220
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 263
- Steindachner, Dr. F., 1882 "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flussfische Südamerikas IV." (Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Vol. 19, P. 176)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 59)
- 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. 510)
- 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)
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for the pictures
Steindachner, Franz (1883) (PD)
1, 2, 3
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