Farlowella oxyrrhyncha
Kner, 1853
Synonyms
Acestra oxyrrhyncha
Farlowella gladius
Farlowella gladius
Length (total)
approx. 26 cm
Standard length (documented)
229.0 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Rondônia, Bolivar, Pará, Maranhão
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela
rio Madeira | río Uruguay ⇒ Amazonas ⇒ Atlantic NE ↓ río Orinoco → Caribic ↓
˜[ -11.094,-65.282 ]
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
substrate breeder
from genus: yes
unknown
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. 333
- Schäfer, Frank: "Aufgetaucht"
(DATZ 07/2012 - "Wels-Presseschau")
- Kner, R., 1854 "Die Panzerwelse des k. k. Hof-Naturalien-Cabinetes zu Wien - I. Loricarinae" (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Vol. 6, P. 94)
- 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. 77)
- 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)
- Silva, L.M. da, 2017 "Análises Cromossômicas, Clássica E Molecular, De Espécies De Farlowella (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Loricariinae) Da Amazônia Central"
- 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)
- Terán, G.E.; Ballen, G.A.; Alonso, F.; Aguilera, G. & Mirande, J.M., 2019 "A new species of Farlowella (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Bermejo River, La Plata River basin, northwestern Argentina" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 17 No. 2)
- 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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