Otocinclus macrospilus
Eigenmann & Allen, 1942
Synonyms
carachamita
Dwarf Sucker
Gestreifter Ohrgitter-Harnischwels
Dwarf Sucker
Gestreifter Ohrgitter-Harnischwels
Length (total)
approx. 5 cm
Standard length (documented)
35.3 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Temperature
24 - 28 °C
pH
5.5 - 7.5
río Morona, rio Japurá, rio Juruá; río Napo-Einzug /, río Caqueta-Einzug; río Nanay, río Marañon, rio Orteguaza, río Yasuni, río Cuyabeno, río Tarapuy, río Sansahuari, río San Miguel
Amazonas (BRA), Amazonas (COL) Rondônia, Loreto
Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru
Amazonas
˜[ -3.247,-77.616 ]
High above sea level
< 230 m
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
Can breathe atmospheric
yes
from genus: W: größer, fülliger, weniger Odontoden am Schwanzstiel M: kleiner, zierlicher
Catfish Atlas 1
I / 5 rays
incised / concave, pointed
I / 7 rays
incised / concave, pointed
I / 7 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
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
28/October/2021
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 325
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 1 P.320-321
- Wewer, Daniel: "Auf der Suche nach Otocinclus cocama"
(Amazonas November/Dezember 2014 - "Wels-Presseschau")
- Eigenmann, C.H. & Allen, William R., 1942 "Fishes of western South America. I. The intercordilleran and Amazonian lowlands of Peru. II. The High Pampas of Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile" (Fishes of western South America, P. 201)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 275)
- Lehmann, P.A.; Mayer, F. & Reis, R.E., 2010 "A New Species of Otocinclus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Madeira Drainage, Brazil" (abstract) (Copeia, Vol. 2010 No. 4, P. 636)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 112)
- Ribeiro, A.C. & Lehmann, P.A., 2016 "A new Otocinclus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the Rio Juruena Basin, central Brazil" (Zootaxa 4247 (3), P. 244)
- DoNascimiento, C.; Herrera-Callazos, E.E.; Herrera-R., G.A.; Ortega-Lara, A.; Villa-Navarro, F.A.; Oviedo, J.S.U. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., 2017 "Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 76)
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Many thanks to
for the pictures
Dejon Tobias
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
H.K.
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