gnomus (lat.) - dwarf
Synonyms
Dwarf panaque
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 9 cm
Standard length (documented)
70.8 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Temperature
24 - 28 °C
Morona-Santiago, Napo, Sucumbios, Pastaza, Amazonas, Loreto
Ecuador, Peru
río Morona | río Pastaza | río Santiago ⇒ río Marañón | río Napo ⇒ Amazonas → Atlantic NE
˜[ -2.650,-77.717 ]
High above sea level
> 300 m
Nutrition (mostly): wood-eater
Eats plants
yes
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: males: slim waist, strong odontodes
approx. 6.0 cm
from genus: Standard
unknown
 
present
II / 7 rays
II / 7 rays
not known
- Das Aquarium 9/96 S.25
- Tanke, Andreas: "Ein erster Überblick über eine beliebte Harnischwelsgattung"
(DATZ 7/2013 - "Wels-Presseschau")
- 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. 333)
- 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)
- Tan, M.; Souza, L.S. de & Armbruster, J.W., 2016 "A new species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Branco" (Neotropical Ichthyology)
- 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. 16)
- 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. 333)
- Mccauley, M.; German, D.P.; Lujan, N.K. & Jackson, C.R., 2020 "Gut microbiomes of sympatric Amazonian wood‐eating catfishes (Loricariidae) reflect host identity and little role in wood digestion" (Ecology & Evolution)
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