Cochliodon levis/Hypostomus levis
Pearson, 1924
Synonyms
Rhinelepis levis
data deficient
Length (total)
approx. 23 cm
Standard length (documented)
187.9 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
High above sea level
~681 m
Nutrition (mostly): wood-eater
Eats plants
yes
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
Sex difference
from genus: Standard
unknown
absent
I / 4 rays
incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
dark dots
I / 7 rays
straight
dark dots
I / 4 rays
incised / concave, pointed
little longer at the bottom than at the top
dark dots
I / 7 rays
straight
dark dots
Sympatric with
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. 359
- Pearson, Nathan E., 1924 "The Fishes of the Eastern Slope of the Andes - I. The Fishes of the Rio Beni Basin, Bolivia, Collected by the Mulford Expedition" (Indiana University Studies, Vol. 11, P. 22)
- Armbruster, Jonathan W., 2003 "The species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 249)
- 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)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 255)
- Martins, F.O.; Marinho, M.M.F; Langeani, F. & Serra, J.P., 2012 "A New Species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Upper Rio Paraguay Basin, Brazil" (Copeia, Vol. 40 No. 3, P. 496)
- Zawadzki, C.H. & Carvalho, P.H., 2014 "A new species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Aripuanã basin in Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 12 No. 1, P. 36)
- Tencatt, L.F.C.; Zawadzki, C.H. & Froehlich, O., 2014 "Two new species of the Hypostomus cochliodon Group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Paraguay basin, with a redescription of Hypostomus cochliodon Kner, 1854" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 8 No. 1, P. 602)
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