according to the origin Río Paraguay
Synonyms
Twig Catfish
Length (total)
approx. 20 cm
Standard length (documented)
175.4 mm
Recommended tank size
120 cm
Temperature
22 - 26 °C
Amambay, Canendiyú, Concepción, Paraguari, Presidente Hayes
Paraguay
rio Taquari | río Jejuí Guazú → río Paraguay → río Paraná → río de la Plata → Atlantic SE
[ -24.518,-56.725 ]
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
substrate breeder
from genus: yes
unknown
 
Sympatric with
On the positive list of Brazil in 2012 : The positive list of Brazil
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
13/February/2016
- 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
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 1 (2002) P.424 - 425
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 2 (2005) P.462 - 463
- Seidel, Ingo: "Die Nadelwelse der Gattung Farlowella"
(Aquaristik Fachmagazin Februar / März 2020)
- 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. 51)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 239)
- Britski, H.A.; Silimon, K.Z.S. & Lopes, B.S., 2007 "Peixes do Pantanal-Manual de Identificação"
- 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)
- 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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