Parotocinclus planicauda
Garavello & Britski, 2003
planus (lat.) - flat, cauda (lat.) - tail, because of the rectangular caudal peduncle with conspicuously flat sides
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 5 cm
Standard length (documented)
40.5 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
unknown
present
5 soft rays
14 soft rays
incised / concave, pointed
I / 7 rays
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
5 soft rays
14 soft rays
incised / concave, pointed
I / 7 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
- Garavello, J.C. & Britski, H.A., 2003 "Parotocinclus planicauda, a new species of the subfamily Hypoptopomatinae from Southeastern Brazil (Ostariophysi: Loricariidae)" (Brazilian Journal of Biology, Vol. 63)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 283)
- Sarmento-Soares, Luisa M.; Lehmann, Pablo A. & Martins-Pinheiro, Ronaldo F., 2009 "Parotocinclus arandai, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rios Jucuruçu and Buranhém, States of Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 7 No. 2, P. 196)
- Britski, H.A. & Garavello, J.C., 2009 "Redescription of Parotocinclus bahiensis (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1918) (Pisces, Ostariophysi, Loricariidae)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 2143, P. 60)
- Lehmann, P.A. & Reis, R.E., 2012 "A new species of Parotocinclus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Rio São Francisco, Brazil" (Zootaxa, No. 3390, P. 62)
- Lehmann, A.P.; Lazzarotto, H. & Reis, R.E., 2014 "Parotocinclus halbothi, a new species of small armored catfish (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae), from the Trombetas and Marowijne River basins, in Brazil and Suriname" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 12 No. 1, P. 32)
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