Denticetopsis praecox
Ferraris & Brown, 1991
praecox - precocius (lat.) - precocious, due to small size at sexual maturity
Synonyms
Pseudocetopsis praecox
Length (total)
approx. 7 cm
Standard length (documented)
52.9 mm
pH
4.3 - 5.0
(Prefered) River depth
< 0.10 m
Type of water
Black water
Chironomidae (Chironomidae) (larvae), insects (larvae)
Eats plants
not known
unknown
not known
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 259
- Ferraris, C.J., Jr. & Brown, B.A., 1991 "A new species of Pseudocetopsis from the Río Negro drainage of Venezuela (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae)" (Copeia, Vol. 1991 No. 1, P. 162)
- Ferraris, C.J. Jr. & Vari, R.P. , 1992 "Catalog of type specimens of recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution" (Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, No. 535, P. 16)
- Pinna, M.C.C. de & Vari, R.P., 1995 "Monophyly and phylogenetic diagnosis of the family Cetopsidae, with synonymization of the Helogenidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes)" (Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, No. 571, P. 3)
- Vari, R.P.; Ferraris, C.J.Jr. & Pinna, M.C.C.de, 2005 "The Neotropical whale catfishes (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae: Cetopsinae), a revisionary study" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 3 No. 2, P. 213)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 133)
- Pinna, M.C.C. de, Ferraris, C.J.Jr. & Vari, R.P., 2007 "A phylogenetic study of the neotropical catfish family Cetopsidae (Osteichthyes, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a new classification" (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 150 No. 4, P. 802)
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