Synonyms
Hypostomus pyrineusi
Length (total)
approx. 30 cm
Standard length (documented)
228.0 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Temperature
25 - 29 °C
➀ rio Madeira, upper ➀ Amazonas = rio Solimões, ➀ río Guaporé = río Iténez, ➀ río Napo, ➀ río Marañón, ➀ río Huallaga, río Beni, río Cenepa = río Canepa, río Curiraba, río Huampani, río Itaya, rio Jamarí, río Kayamas, río Lushian, rio Macauã = rio Macauhan, río Maniqui, ➀ río Nanay, arroyo Pachija, arroyo Picaflor, río Pucuno, río Rondos, río Santiago, río Tambopata, ribeirão Xambioazinho
Acre, Amazonas, Rondônia, Madre de Dios, Loreto, Orellana, Beni
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru
río Maniqui → río Rapulo → río Yacuma ⇒ río Mamoré | ( río Manú ⇒ río Madre de Dios ) → río Beni ⇒ rio Madeira | ( río Monzón → río Huallaga | río Kaank → río Yaupi → río Santiago | río Cenepa) ⇒ río Marañón | (río Misahuallí | río Sono) ⇒ río Napo | rio Iaco → rio Purus ⇒ Amazonas → Atlantic NE
˜[ -8.944,-63.307 ]
Nutrition (mostly): wood-eater
Eats plants
yes
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
Sex difference
from genus: Standard
unknown
 
Sympatric with
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
- Miranda Ribeiro, Dr. A.de, 1920 "Peixes (excl. Characinidae)" (Commissão de Linhas Telegraphicas Estrategicas de Matto-Grosso ao Amazonas) P. 399
- Lilyestrom, C.G., 1984 "Consideraciones sobre la taxonomia de las especies del genero Cochliodon Heckel en Venezuela (Pisces, Loricariidae)" (Revista Unellez de Ciencia y Tecnologia) P. 41
- Evers, Hans-Georg: "Trockenzeit"
(Amazonas Januar / Februar 2018)
- Weber, Claude & Montoya-Burgos, Juan Ignacio, 2002 "Hypostomus fonchii sp. n. (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Peru, a key species suggesting the synonym of Cochliodon with Hypostomus" (Revue Suisse de Zoologie , 109(2), P. 366)
- Armbruster, Jonathan W., 2003 "The species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 249, P. 46)
- 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. 80)
- Hollanda Carvalhon, P.& Weber,C., 2004 "Five new species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the middle and lower Amazon System" (Revue Suisse de Zoologie, Vol. 111, P. 955)
- Galvis, G.; Mojica, J.I.; Doque, S.R.; Castellanos, C.; Sánchez-Duarte, P.; Arce, M.; Gutiérrez, Á.; Jiménez, L.F.; Santos, M.; Vejarano, S.; Arbeláez, F.; Prieto, E. & Leiva,, 2006 "Peces del medio Amazonas - Región de Leticia" (Conservación Internacional, P. 345)
- German, D.P. & Bittong, R.A. , 2009 "Digestive enzyme activities and gastrointestinal fermentation in wood-eating catWshes"
- Carvalho, T.P.; Tang, S.J.; Fredieu, J.I.; Quispe, R.; Corahua, I.; Ortega, H.; Albert, J.S., 2009 "Fishes from the upper Yuruá river, Amazon basin, Peru" (CheckList, 5, P. 673)
- Lujan, N.K.; German, D.P. & Winemiller, K.O., 2011 "Do wood‐grazing fishes partition their niche?: morphological and isotopic evidence for trophic segregation in Neotropical Loricariidae" (Functional Ecology, P. 4)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 113)
- 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)
- Tencatt, L.F.C. & Ohara, W.M., 2016 "A new long-snouted species of Corydoras Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) from the rio Madeira basin" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4144 No. 3, P. 436)
- Careaga, M.; ergueta, C.; Gutierrez Ojeda, E.K.; Maldonado, M. & Carvajal-Vallejos, F.M., 2020 "Inventario de los peces del río Yata (Beni, Bolivia)" (Hidrobiología Neotropical y Conservación Acuática, Vol. 1 No. 1, P. 77)
- PCF
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