Synonyms
Bloodfin Bulldog Pleco
Chaetostoma lineopunctata
Rotflossen-Gebirgsharnischwels
Chaetostoma lineopunctata
Rotflossen-Gebirgsharnischwels
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 12 cm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Temperature
23 - 28 °C
pH
6.0 - 8.0
río Azupizú, ➀ río Araza = río Marcapata, río Guambo = río Huambo, ➀ río Huacamayo near Aguaytia, río Huacyumbre, río Inambari, río Loromayo, río Nusiniscato, río Pachitea, ➀ río Perené, quebrada Sabeti, ➀ río San Alejandro, río Santa Anita, río Urubamba = río Vilcanota, río Yanamayo, ➀ río Aguaytía -, upper río Pisqui basin
río Loromay
río Loromay
Pasco, Ucayali, Huánuco, Junin, Cusco, Madre de Dios
Peru
Río Pichis ➙ río Pachitea | río Aguaytía | río Tambo ➙ río Urubamba ⇒ río Ucayali | Madre de Dios ➙ río Beni ➙ rio Madeira ⇒ Amazonas
[ -10.617,-74.908 ]
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
nein
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: Male have a more angular head and the edge of their snout is more thick
from genus: Standard
unknown
 
5 soft rays
I / 8 rays
I / 8 rays
Sympatric with
not known
- Salcedo, N.J., "Description of two new rubber-nose armored catfish species and redescription of Chaetostoma marmorescens Eigenmann and Alllen, 1942 from the río Huallaga basin in Central Peru"
- I. Seidel / H.-G. Evers "Welsatlas 2" edition: 1 (2005) P.430
- A. Werner / W. Lechner / Dr. J. Schmidt "Miniatlas L-Welse" edition: 1 (2005) P.239
- DATZ 3/2008 S.26
- Konn-Vetterlein, Daniel: "Gebirgsharnischwelse aus Peru"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Juni/Juli 2017 ) - Katzschmann, Anja & Behr, Norman: "Im Tiefland des Río-Pachitea-Einzuges"
(Amazonas Mai / Juni 2021) - Katzschmann, Anja & Behr, Norman: "Unterwegs in Peru – Lederhosen und Lamontichthys"
(Amazonas September / Öktober 2021) - Katzschmann, Anja & Behr, Norman: "Unterwegs in Peru: entlang des río Pirené"
(Amazonas Juli / August 2023)
- Eigenmann, C.H. & Allen, W.R., 1942 "Fishes of Western South America I. The Intercordilleran an Amazonian Lowlands of Peru II. The High Pampas of Peru, Bolivia, and Nothern Chile - With Revision of the Peruvian Gymnotidae, and of the Genus ORESTIAS" (The University of Kentucky, P. 192)
- Seidel, Ingo, 2011 "Gleich drei neue Chaetostoma-Arten aus Peru" (DATZ, 2011-7, P. 28)
- Lujan, N.K.; Meza-Vargas, V.; Astudillo-Clavijo, V. & ´López-Fernández, H., 2015 "A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes" (Copeia, Vol. 103 No. 3, P. 664)
- Ballen, G.A.; Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Maldonado Ocampo, J.A., 2016 "Description of a new species of the genus Chaetostoma from the Orinoco drainage with comments on Chaetostoma milesi Fowler (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4105 No. 2, P. 195)
- Meza-Vargas, V.; Calegari, B.B.; Lujan, N.K.; Ballen, G.A.; Oyakawa, O.T.; Sousa, L.M. Rapp Py-Daniel, L. & Reis, R.E., 2022 "A New Species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) Expands the Distribution of Rubbernose Plecos Eastward into the Lower Amazon Basin of Brazil" (abstract) (Ichthyology & Herpetology, Vol. 110 No. 2, P. 376)
- Krings, W.; Konn‑Vetterlein, D.; Hausdorf, B. & Gorb, S.N., 2023 "Holding in the stream: convergent evolution of suckermouth structures in Loricariidae (Siluriformes)" (Frontiers in Zoology, Vol. 20 No. 1, P. 37)
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