Helogenes marmoratus
Günther, 1863
(Type species)
marmoratus (lat.) - marbled
Synonyms
Helogenes amazonae
Helogenes unidorsalis
Helogenes unidorsalis
Length (total)
approx. 10 cm
Standard length (documented)
73.0 mm
➀ Essequibo River, río Bobonaza, río Tambopata, Corantijn River = Courantyne River, Kurupung River, Potaro River, Saramacca River, Crique Balaté, Maka Creek, Tapoeripa River, ➀ río Orinoco, ➀ río Mawarinuma, ➀ río Orinoco -, ➀ Amazonas = rio Solimões
Essequibo River, Amazonas-, Orinoco-, Guayas-Einzg - widespread
Essequibo River, Amazonas-, Orinoco-, Guayas-Einzg - widespread
Amazonas (BRA), Pará (BRA), Pastaza, Madre de Dios, Loreto, Essequibo, Nickerie, Para (SUR), Saramaca, Brokopondo, Marowijne, Cayenne, Amazonas (VEN)
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
Atlantic NE↓ Caribic↓
Locality
of vegetation, under foliage
Type of water
Clear water, Black water
Flow
normal - strong
Substrate
gravel, sand
ants (Formicidae), insects (terrestrial)
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
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- Günther, A.C.L.G., 1863 "On new species of fishes from the Essequibo" (The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology, Vol. 12 No. 3, P. 443)
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- 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)
- Brosse, S.; Melki, F. & Vigouroux, R., 2019 "Fishes of the Mitaraka Mountains (French Guiana)" (abstract) (Zoosystema, Vol. 41 No. 8, P. 134)
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