Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 15 cm
Standard length (documented)
130.4 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
24 - 28 °C
pH
6.0 - 8.0
Flow
small - strong
Substrate
rocks
In water
deadwood
Nutrition (mostly): wood-eater
Eats plants
yes
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: males: slim waist, strong odontodes
from genus: Standard
unknown
 
present
4 soft rays
13 - 14 soft rays
II / 7 - 8 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
4 soft rays
13 - 14 soft rays
II / 7 - 8 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
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
- Tanke, Andreas: "Ein erster Überblick über eine beliebte Harnischwelsgattung"
(DATZ 7/2013 - "Wels-Presseschau") - Cramer, Christian: "Neues von Panaqolus purusiensis"
(DATZ 01/2014 - "Wels-Presseschau")
- LaMonte F.R., 1935 "Fishes From Rio Jurua and Rio Purus, Brazilian Amazonas" (American Museum Novitates, No. 784, P. 3)
- Schaefer, Scott A. & Stewart, Donald J., 1993 "Systematics of the Panaque dentex species group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), wood-eating armored catfishes from tropical South America" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol 4 No. 4, P. 325)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H.; Seidel, I.; Michels, J.P., Schraml, R. & Werner,A., 2001 "Diagnose vierzehn neuer Gattungen der Familie Loricariidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Teleostei, Ostariophysi)" (DATZ Sonderheft Harnischwelse 2, 2, P. 21)
- Chockley, B.R. & Armbruster, J.W., 2002 "Panaque changae, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from eastern Peru" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 13 No. 1, P. 83)
- Lujan, Nathan K.; Steele, Sarah & Velasquez, Miquel, 2013 "A new distinctively banded species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the western Amazon Basin in Peru" (Zootaxa, 3691, P. 1927)
- Cramer, C.A., 2014 "Redescription of Panaqolus purusiensis (LaMonte, 1935) (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with identification key to the species of the genus" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol 12 No. 1)
- Cramer & Rapp Py-Daniel, 2015 "A new species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Madeira basin with remarkable intraspecific color variation" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 13 No. 3, P. 469)
- Cramer, C.A. & de Sousa, L.M., 2016 "A New Species of Tiger Pleco Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Xingu Basin, Brazil" (PLOS one, P. 2)
- Lujan, N.K.; Cramer, C.A.; Covain, R., Fisch-Muller, S. & López-Fernández, H, 2017 "Multilocus molecular phylogeny of the ornamental wood-eating catfishes (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Panaqolus and Panaque) reveals undescribed diversity and parapatric clades" (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 109, P. 133)
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