Andeancistrus platycephalus
Boulenger, 1898
(Type species)
Synonyms
Chaetostomus platycephalus
Cordylancistrus platycephalus
Hemiancistrus platycephalus
Raspabalsa
Shacham
Cordylancistrus platycephalus
Hemiancistrus platycephalus
Raspabalsa
Shacham
data deficient
Length (total)
approx. 16 cm
Standard length (documented)
122.1 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
High above sea level
330 - 1120 m
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
Sex difference
unknown
not known
- Behr, Norman: "Unterwegs in Ecuador – Teil 2: Die östlichen Andenhänge"
(Amazonas Mai / Juni 2024)
- Boulenger, G.A., 1898 "Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. Poissons de l'Équateur" (Bollettino dei musei di zoologia ed anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino, Vol. 13, P. 8)
- Regan, C. Tate, 1904 "A monograph of the Fishes of the Family Loricariidae" (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 17, P. 235)
- Lujan, N.K.; Meza-Vargas, V. & Barriga-Salazar, 2015 "Two New Chaetostoma Group (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) Sister Genera from Opposite Sides of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, with the Description of One New Species" (BioOne, Vol. 103 No. 3, P. 651)
- Nugra, F.; Abad, D. & Zárate, E., 2018 "Guía De Peces Del Alto Nangaritza "
- PCF
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