Farlowella curtirostra
Myers, 1942
Bezug auf das sehr kurze Rostrum
Synonyms
Aguja de los Andes
Andean twig catfish
Charrosca
Kurzschnäuziger Schnabelwels
Andean twig catfish
Charrosca
Kurzschnäuziger Schnabelwels
Length (total)
approx. 17 cm
Standard length (documented)
144.2 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Temperature
24 - 27 °C
Mérida, Táchia, Trujillo
Venezuela
río Onia ⇒ río Escalante | río Chama | río Zulia → río Catatumbo | río Motatán de los Negros | río Negro → río Santa Ana ⇒ lago de Maracaibo → Caribic
˜[ 9.509,-70.585 ]
High above sea level
150 - 850 m
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
substrate breeder
from genus: yes
yes
not known
- Myers, G.S., 1942 "Studies on South American fresh-water fishes I" (Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin) P. 89
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 332
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 1 (2002) P.421 - 422
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 2 (2005) P.459 - 460
- Schäfer, Frank: "Kolumbiens Nadelwelse überarbeitet"
(DATZ 04/2015 - "Wels-Presseschau")
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 237)
- Péfaur. J.E., 2008 "Aguja de los Andes Farlowella curtirostra Myers 1942" (Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana, Ed. 3)
- 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)
- 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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