Synonyms
has Bunocephalus carvalhoi
has Bunocephalus minutus
has Bunocephalus salathei
has Dysichthys iheringii
has Bunocephalus minutus
has Bunocephalus salathei
has Dysichthys iheringii
Length (total)
approx. 6 cm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
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
- Güntert, H., 1942 "Beschreibung einiger zum Teil noch unbekannter südamerikanischer Siluriden aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Basel" (Zoologischer Anzeiger) P. 28
- Miranda Ribeiro, Dr. A.de, 1944 "Uma nova espécie para o gênero Bunocephalus Kner, 1855 (Pisces -- Aspredinidae)" (Zoologia) P. 1
- 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. 222
- 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
- Boulenger, G.A., 1891 "An Account of the Siluroid Fishes obtained by Dr. H. von Ihering and Herr Sebastian Wolff in the Province Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil" (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, P. 235)
- Myers, George S., 1928 "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. 125)
- Malabarba, L.R., 1989 "Histórico sistemático e lista comentada das espécies de peixes de ägua doce do sistema da Laguna dos Patos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil" (Comunicações do Museu de Ciências da PUCRS, Vol. 2 No. 8, P. 145)
- López, H.L.; Miquelarena,A.M. & Menni, R.C., 2003 "Lista comentada de los peces continentales de la Argentina" (ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica, No. 5, P. 64)
- Menni, R.C., 2004 "Peces y ambientes en la Argentina continental" (Monografías del Museo Argentina Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, No. 5, P. 82)
- 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)
- Friel, J.P., 2008 "Pseudobunocephalus, a new genus of banjo catfish with the description of a new species from the Orinoco River system of Colombia and Venezuela (Siluriformes: Aspridinidae)" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 6 No. 3, P. 294)
- Bertaco, V.A.; Ferrer, J.; Carvalho, F.R. & Malabarba, L.R., 2016 "Article Inventory of the freshwater fishes from a densely collected area in South America —a case study of the current knowledge of Neotropical fish diversity" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4138 No. 3, P. 415)
- Nión, H.; Rios, C. & Meneses, P., 2016 "Peces del Uruguay - Lista sistemática y nombres comunes"
- Leão, M.D.V.; Carvalho, T.P.; Reis, R.E. & Wosiacki, W.B., 2019 "A new species of Pseudobunocephalus Friel, 2008 (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae) from the lower Tocantins and Mearim river drainages, North and Northeast of Brazil" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4586 No 1, P. 120)
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G. A. Boulenger (1891) (PD)
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