Hisonotus hungy
Azpelicueta, Almirón, Casciotta & Koerber, 2007
hungy (guaraní) - brown
Synonyms
Hisonotus cf. paulinus
Length (total)
approx. 5 cm
Standard length (documented)
42.3 mm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Nutrition (mostly): vegetarian
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
unknown
absent
14 soft rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
top and bottom approximately the same length
bright dots
fin edging: white
I / 7 rays
small dark dots
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
14 soft rays
slightly incised / concave, pointed
top and bottom approximately the same length
bright dots
fin edging: white
I / 7 rays
small dark dots
6 soft rays
5 soft rays
Sympatric with
Heptapterus mustelinus
Astyanax cf. fasciatus
Astyanax cf. troya
Astyanax eigenmanniorum
Australoheros tembe
Bryconamericus iheringii
Astyanax cf. fasciatus
Astyanax cf. troya
Astyanax eigenmanniorum
Australoheros tembe
Bryconamericus iheringii
Characidium sp.
Corydoras carlae
Gymnogeophagus che
Oligosarcus jenynsii
Oligosarcus paranensis
Schizodon nasutus
Corydoras carlae
Gymnogeophagus che
Oligosarcus jenynsii
Oligosarcus paranensis
Schizodon nasutus
not known
- Azpelicueta, M. de las Merceces, Almirón, Adriana E., Casciotta, Jorge R. & Koerber, Stefan, 2007 "Hisonotus hungy sp. n. (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) a new species from arroyo Tirica, Misiones, Argentina" (Revue Suisse de Zoologie, Vol. 114 No. 3, P. 592)
- Calegari, B.B.; Morlis, W.G. & Reis, R.E., 2017 "A new species of Otothyropsis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Río Paraná basin, Paraguay, with a discussion of the limits between Otothyropsis and Hisonotus" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4244, No. 2, P. 243)
- PCF
Many thanks to
for the pictures
Ingo Seidel
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