Dekeyseria niveata
La Monde, 1929
Synonyms
Peckoltia niveata
Plecostomus niveatus
Plecostomus niveatus
Length (total)
approx. 15 cm
Standard length (documented)
130.0 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
25 - 29 °C
High above sea level
~100 m
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
from genus: look to head shape and pectoral fins
from genus: Cleaves
unknown
 
present
I / 4 rays
straight
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 7 rays
I / 4 rays
straight
little longer at the bottom than at the top
I / 7 rays
Possibly identical with Dekeyseria scaphirhyncha (L 216)
Sympatric with
not known
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 383
- La Monte, F., 1929 "Two New Fishes From Mt. Duida, Venezuela" (American Museum Novitates, No. 373, P. 3)
- Isbrücker, I.J.H., 1980 "Classification and catalogue of the mailed Loricariidae (Pisces, Siluriformes)" (Verslagen en technische Gegevens. Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie, No. 22, P. 56)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 234)
- Armbruster, J.W.; Werneke, D.C. & Tan, M., 2015 "Three new species of saddled loricariid catfishes, and a review of Hemiancistrus, Peckoltia, and allied genera (Siluriformes)" (ZooKeys, Vol. 480, P. 100)
- PCF
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