Farlowella smithi
Fowler, 1913
dedicated Mr. Edgar A. Smith
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 15 cm
Standard length (documented)
100.0 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
25 - 29 °C
Rondônia, Amazonas
Brazil, Peru, Ecuador
río Ucayali | río Marañón ⇒ Amazonas | rio Inhangapi → rio Guamá → baia do Guajará → rio Pará ⇒ Atlantic NE
˜[ -4.369,-59.640 ]
Type of water
Clear water, White water
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
substrate breeder
from genus: yes
unknown
I / 5 rays
incised / concave, pointed
long filament upper
long filament lower
I / 6 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
incised / concave, pointed
long filament upper
long filament lower
I / 6 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
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
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 334
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 1 (2002) P.428 - 429
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 2 (2005) P.466 - 467
- Seidel, Ingo: "Die Nadelwelse der Gattung Farlowella"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Februar / März 2020)
- Fowler, Henry W., 1913 "Fishes from the Madeira River, Brazil" (Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 65, P. 574)
- Retzer, M.E. & Page, L.M., 1997 "Systematics of the stick catfishes, farlowella eigenmann & eigenmann (pisces, loricariidae)" (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 147, P. 80)
- Ballen & Mojica, 2014 "A new trans-Andean Stick Catfish of the genus Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with the first record of the genus for the río Magdalena Basin in Colombia" (Zootaxa 3765(2):134-147, P. 140)
- Ballen, G.A. & Pastana, M.N.L. & Peixoto, L.A.W., 2016 "A new species of Farlowella (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) of the F. nattereri species-group from the rio Xingu basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with comments on Farlowella jauruensis , a poorly-known species from the upper rio Paraguai basin" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 14 No. 3)
- Ballen, G.A.; Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Zamudio, J., 2016 "Farlowella mitoupibo, a new species of stick catfish from the upper Guaviare River, Orinoco basin, Colombia (Teleostei: Loricariidae)" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 27 No. 4, P. 332)
- 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. 77)
- Londoño-Burbano, A. & Reis, R.E., 2021 "A combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of the Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with emphasis on the Harttiini and Farlowellini" (PlosOne)
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for the pictures
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Henry Fowler, 1913 (PD)
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