Nannoptopoma sternoptychum
Hypoptopoma sternoptychum
Schaefer, 1996
sternon(gr.)- chest, ptychos (gr.) - plate
Synonyms
Length (total)
approx. 5 cm
Standard length (documented)
36.6 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Madre de Dios, Beni, Amazonas (BRA), Napo-Pastaza
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru
río Madre de Dios → río Beni | río Apere → río Mamoré ⇒ rio Madeira | río Napo ⇒ Amazonas → Atlantic NE
˜[ -12.600,-69.181 ]
High above sea level
< 200 m
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
Can breathe atmospheric
yes
unknown
I / 5 rays
14 soft rays
I / 7 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
14 soft rays
I / 7 rays
6 soft rays
5 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
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 324
- Seidel, Ingo "Ingos Harnischwelszucht" edition: 1 (2010) P.125
- Schaefer, S.A., 1996 "Nannoptopoma, a new genus of loricariid catfishes (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Amazon and Orinoco River Basins" (Copeia, Vol. 1996 No. 4, P. 913)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 273)
- Aquino, A.E. & Schaefer, S.A., 2010 "Systematics of the genus Hypoptopoma Günther, 1868 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural History, No. 336, P. 1)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 112)
- 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)
- PCF
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