Eurycheilichthys pantherinus
Reis & Schaefer, 1992
(Type species)
Synonyms
Eurycheilus pantherinus
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 7 cm
Standard length (documented)
48.1 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Temperature
16 - 21 °C
Rio Grande do Sul, Misiones
Argentina, Brazil
rio do Silveira ⇒ rio Pelotas | rio do índio → arroyo Pepiri Guazú | arroyo Yaboti Guazú ⇒ rio Uruguai = río Uruguay → río de la Plata → Atlantic SE
[ -28.700,-50.167 ]
High above sea level
250 - 500 m
Flow
strong
Substrate
rocks
In water
Makrophyten
Nutrition (mostly): insect-eater
ephemeroptera (Ephemeroptera), diptera (Diptera), beetle (Coleoptera), vegetable fibers, Trichoptera (Trichoptera)
Eats plants
not known
unknown
absent
14 soft rays
7 soft rays
7 soft rays
5 soft rays
14 soft rays
7 soft rays
7 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
- Reis, R.E. & Schaefer, S.A., 1993 "Eurycheilichthys nom. nov., a substitute name for Eurycheilus Reis and Schaefer, 1992 (Siluridei: Loricariidae)" (Copeia) P. 894
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 322
- Reis, R.E. & Schaefer, S.A., 1992 "Eurycheilus pantherinus (Siluroidei: Loricariidae), a new genus and species of Hypoptopomatinae from southern Brazil" (Copeia, Vol. 1992 No. 1, P. 215)
- Dias, T. & Fialho, C.B., 2011 "Comparative dietary analysis of Eurycheilichthys pantherinus and Pareiorhaphis hystrix: two Loricariidae species (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes) from Campos Sulinos biome, southern Brazil" (Iheringia, Vol.101 No. 1-2, P. 49)
- Azpelicueta, M. de las M. & Koerber, S., 2014 "First record of the hypoptopomatine genus Eurycheilichthys Reis & Schaefer, 1993 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from Argentina" (CheckList, Vol. 10 No. 5, P. 1210)
- Bertaco, V.A.; Ferrer, J.; Carvalho, F.R. & Malabarba, L.R., 2016 "Article Inventory of the freshwater fishes from a densely collected area in South America —a case study of the current knowledge of Neotropical fish diversity" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4138 No. 3, P. 417)
- Reis, Roberto E., 2017 "Unexpectedly high diversity in a small basin: A taxonomic revision of Eurycheilichthys (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with descriptions of seven new species" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 15 No.1)
- Delapieve, M.L.S.; Rocha, L.A. & Reis, R.E., 2023 "Phylogenomics of the narrowly endemic Eurycheilichthys (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): Sympatric species with non-sister relationships suggest mainly allopatric speciation" (abstract) (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, No. 190)
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