dedicated Bethea Martin (Lago Petroleum Corporation) für die Hilfe bei den Aufsammlungen in Venezuela
Synonyms
Length (total)
approx. 16 cm
Standard length (documented)
81.5 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: The males have more and longer tentacle on the head. Often females have only short tentacle/stublles anlong the mouth.
from genus: Standard
unknown
 
I / 3 - 4 rays
I / 7 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
I / 7 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
not known
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- Schultz, Leonard P., 1944 "The catfishes of Venezuela, with description of thirty-eight new forms" (Proceedings of the National Museum, Vol. 94, P. 302)
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- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 223)
- Taphorn, Armbruster, Villa-Navarro & Ray, 2013 "Trans-Andean Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Zootaxa 3641 (4): 343–370 )
- 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. 83)
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