Pterygoplichthys etentaculatus
Spix, 1829
(Type species)
Synonyms
Hypostoma etentaculatum
has Ancistrus longimanus
has Hypostomus brevitentaculatus
has Hypostomus duodecimalis
Sao Francisco-Segelschilderwels
has Ancistrus longimanus
has Hypostomus brevitentaculatus
has Hypostomus duodecimalis
Sao Francisco-Segelschilderwels
Length (total)
approx. 40 cm
Recommended tank size
200 cm
Temperature
25 - 30 °C
pH
6.0 - 8.0
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
unknown
present
11 soft rays
11 soft rays
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
- Weber, C., 1992 "Révision du genre Pterygoplichthys sensu lato (Pisces, Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie) P. 25
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 366
- I. Seidel / H.-G. Evers "Welsatlas 2" edition: 1 (2005) P.1182
- Spix, J.B.von, 1829 "Selecta genera et species piscium Brasiliensium" (Monachii)
- Armbruster, Jonathan W. & Page, Lawrence M. , 2006 "Redescription of Pterygoplichthys punctatus and description of a new species of Pterygoplichthys (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 4 No. 4, P. 403)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 291)
- Paixao, P.E.G. et. al., 2014 "Preferência Alimentar do Hypancistrus zebra e do Pterygoplichthys etentaculatus (Loricaridae)"
- Orfinger, A.B. & Goodding, D.D., 2018 "The Global Invasion of the Suckermouth Armored Catfish Genus Pterygoplichthys (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): Annotated List of Species, Distributional Summary, and Assessment of Impacts" (Zoological Studies, Vol 57 No. 7)
- Silva, M.J.; Ramos, T.P.A.; Carvalho, F.R.; Brito, M.F.G.; ramos, R.T.C.; Rosa, R.S.; Sánchez-Botero, J.I.; Novaes, J.L.C.; Costa, R.S. & Lima, S.M.Q., 2020 "Freshwater fish richness baseline from the São Francisco Interbasin Water Transfer Project in the Brazilian Semiarid" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 18 No. 4)
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for the pictures
Augusto Bentinho
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Spix (1829) (PD)
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