Hypostomus laplatae
Eigenmann, 1907
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)
- Marini, T.L., Nichols, J.T. & LaMonte, F.R., 1933 "Six new eastern South American Fishes examined in the American Museum of Natural History" (American Museum Novitates, No. 618)
- López, H.L. & Miquelarena, A.M., 1991 "Los Hypostominae (Pisces: Loricariidae) de Argentina" (Fauna de Agua Dulce de la República Argentina, Vol. 40 No. 2, P. 28)
- López, H.L.; Miquelarena,A.M. & Menni, R.C., 2003 "Lista comentada de los peces continentales de la Argentina" (ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica, No. 5, P. 51)
- Armbruster, J.W., 2004 "Phylogenetic relationships of the suckermouth armoured catfishes (Loricariidae) with emphasis on the Hypostominae and the Ancistrinae" (abstract) (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, P. 79)
- Menni, R.C., 2004 "Peces y ambientes en la Argentina continental" (Monografías del Museo Argentina Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, No. 5, P. 81)
- Zawadzki, C.H.; Weber, C. & Pavanelli, C.S., 2010 "A new dark-saddled species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraguay basin" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 8 No. 4, P. 724)
- 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)
- Martins, F.O.; Langeani, F. & Zawadzki, C.H., 2014 "A new spiny species of Hypostomus Lacépède (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) from thermal waters, upper rio Paraná basin, central Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, P. 7)
- 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)
- PCF
Many thanks to
for the pictures
H. P. Risch
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Rob Rensen
7, 8, 9, 10, 11
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