Farlowella platorynchus
Retzer & Page, 1997
platys=breit, rhynchos=Schnauze
Synonyms
Crosshair twig catfish
Fadenkreuz-Schnabelwels
Fadenkreuz-Schnabelwels
Length (total)
approx. 22 cm
Standard length (documented)
194.0 mm
Recommended tank size
150 cm
Temperature
23 - 29 °C
Type of water
White water, Black water
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in (small) groups is recommended. Individual keeping is possible.
substrate breeder
from genus: yes
Catfish Atlas 1
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
last seen on a
german stock list
german stock list
07/February/2019
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 334
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 1 (2002) P.426 - 427
- H.-G. Evers / I. Seidel "Welsatlas 1" edition: 2 (2005) P.464 - 465
- Katzschmann, Anja & Behr, Norman: "Im Tiefland des Río-Pachitea-Einzuges"
(Amazonas Mai / Juni 2021)
- 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. 71)
- Seidel, Ingo, 2012 "Imposante Langnasen-Nadelwelse aus Peru" (aqua-global Newsletter, 12)
- 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)
- Covain, R.; Fisch-Muller, S.; Oliveira, C.; Mol, J.H.; Montoya-Burgos, J.I. & Dray, S., 2016 "Molecular phylogeny of the highly diversified catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) reveals incongruences with morphological classification" (abstract) (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 94 Pt. B, P. 513)
- 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. 25)
- Marajó, L.; Viana, P.F.; Ferreira, M.; Rapp Py-Daniel, L.H. & Feldberg, E., 2018 "Cytogenetics of two Farlowella species (Loricariidae: Loricariinae): implications on the taxonomic status of the species" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 16 No. 4, P. 4)
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for the pictures
Ingo Seidel
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3, 4
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