Hypostomus myersi
Gosline, 1947
dedicated George Sprague Myers (am. Ichthyologe)
Synonyms
Hypostomus sp. "Iguaçu"
Hypostomus sp. "Iguazu"
Myers Schilderwels
Hypostomus sp. "Iguazu"
Myers Schilderwels
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 30 cm
Standard length (documented)
214.1 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Weight
0.163 kg
Temperature
18 - 24 °C
pH
5.5 - 7.0
Paraná, Santa Catarina, Misiones
Argentina, Brazil
rio Iguaçu ⇒ río Paraná → río de la Plata → Atlantic SE
[ -26.217,-51.096 ]
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
unknown
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
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
08/May/2011
- I. Seidel / H.-G. Evers "Welsatlas 2" edition: 1 (2005) P.1051
- Seidel, Ingo: "Die Hypostomus-Arten des Südens"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Oktober / November 2010 "Wels-Presseschau")
- Gosline, W.A., 1947 "Contributions to the classification of the loricariid catfishes" (Arquivos do Museu Nacional de Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 41, P. 79)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 257)
- Gubiani, É.A.; Gomes, L.C. & Agostinho, A.A., 2009 "Length–length and length–weight relationships for 48 fish species from reservoirs of the Parana´ State, Brazil" (Lakes & Reservoirs: Research and Management, Vol. 14, P. 291)
- Garavello, J.C.; Britski, H.A. & Zawadzki, C.H., 2012 "The cascudos of the genus Hypostomus Lacépède (Ostariophysi: Loricariidae) from the rio Iguaçu basin" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 10 No. 2, P. 263)
- Zawadzki, C.H., Ramos, T.P.A & Sabaj, M., 2017 "Hypostomus sertanejo (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), new armoured catfish species from north-eastern Brazil" (Journal of Fish Biology, P. 12)
- 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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