according to the origin Río de la Plata
Synonyms
Plecostomus laplatae
has Plecostomus commersonoides
has Plecostomus rachovii
has Plecostomus taeniatus
Hypostomus commersonoides
Hypostomus rachovii
Hypostomus taeniatus
La Plata-Schilderwels
Vieja de agua ( ARG, URU )
has Plecostomus commersonoides
has Plecostomus rachovii
has Plecostomus taeniatus
Hypostomus commersonoides
Hypostomus rachovii
Hypostomus taeniatus
La Plata-Schilderwels
Vieja de agua ( ARG, URU )
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 55 cm
Standard length (documented)
466.0 mm
Recommended tank size
200 cm
Temperature
15 - 21 °C
pH
7.8 - 8.1
Conductivity
543 - 2435 µS/cm
Oxygen
5.4 - 7.4 mg/L
Flow
normal
Substrate
sand
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: males have longer fins
from genus: Standard
in Canada?
 
present
I / 4 rays
I / 7 rays
I / 4 rays
I / 7 rays
very large area of ??distribution
Sympatric with
not known
- I. Seidel / H.-G. Evers "Welsatlas 2" edition: 1 (2005) P.1039
- Aquaristik Fachmagazin Okt./Nov. 2010 S.7
- Lechner, Walter: "Aquaristisch neue Welse aus São Paulo"
(DATZ 2/2009) - Seidel, Ingo: "Die Hypostomus-Arten des Südens"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Oktober / November 2010 "Wels-Presseschau")
- Eigenmann, Carl H., 1906 "On a Collection of Fishes from Buenos Aires" (Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. 8, P. 450)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; Tencatt, L.F.C. & Froehlich, O., 2014 "A new unicuspid-toothed species of Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Paraguai basin" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 12 No. 1, P. 103)
- Cardoso, Y.P.; Brancolini, F.; Paracampo, A.; Lizarralde, M.; Covain, R. & Montoya-Burgos, J.I., 2016 "Hypostomus formosae, a new catfish species from the Paraguay River Basin with redescription of H. boulengeri (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 27 No. 1, P. 22)
- Nión, H.; Rios, C. & Meneses, P., 2016 "Peces del Uruguay - Lista sistemática y nombres comunes"
- Cardoso, Y.P.; Brancolini, F.; Protogino, L.; Paracampo, A.; Bogan, S.; Posadas, P. & Montoya-Burgos, J.I., 2019 "An integrated approach clarifies the cryptic diversity in Hypostomus Lacépède 1803 from the Lower La Plata Basin" (Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Vol 91 No. 2)
- Cardoso, Y.P.; Queiroz, L.J. de; Bahechar, I.A.; Posadas, P.E. & Montoya-Burgos, 2021 "Multilocus phylogeny and historical biogeography of Hypostomus shed light on the processes of fish diversification in La Plata Basin" (scientific reports, Vol. 11)
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