Chaetostoma vasquezi
Lasso & Provenzano, 1997
dedicated Dr. Enrique Vásquez
Synonyms
unknown
least concern
Length (total)
> 23 cm
Standard length (documented)
187.0 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Temperature
25 - 29 °C
pH
5.5 - 7.0
Locality
in/near rapids
Type of water
Black water
Flow
strong
Substrate
rocks
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
nein
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: Male have a more angular head and the edge of their snout is more thick
from genus: Standard
unknown
 
not known
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 382
- DATZ 3/2008 S.24
- Lasso A., C.A. & Provenzano, F., 1997 "Chaetostoma vasquezi, nueva especie de corroncho del escudo de Guayana, estado Bolívar, Venezuela (Siluroidei,Loricariidae): Descripción y consideraciones biogeográficas" (Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, Vol. 42 No. 147)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 231)
- Lujan, N.K.; Meza-Vargas, V.; Astudillo-Clavijo, V. & ´López-Fernández, H., 2015 "A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes" (Copeia, Vol. 103 No. 3, P. 666)
- Provenzano F.R.; Milani, N.; Rodríguez, C.A.A., 2017 "A new species of the catfish genus Cordylancistrus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4329 No. 3, P. 264)
- Meza-Vargas, V.; Calegari, B.B.; Lujan, N.K.; Ballen, G.A.; Oyakawa, O.T.; Sousa, L.M. Rapp Py-Daniel, L. & Reis, R.E., 2022 "A New Species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) Expands the Distribution of Rubbernose Plecos Eastward into the Lower Amazon Basin of Brazil" (abstract) (Ichthyology & Herpetology, Vol. 110 No. 2, P. 376)
- Museo De Biología de La UCV
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