Synonyms
has Pimelodus brevis
Length (total)
approx. 33 cm
Standard length (documented)
285.0 mm
Recommended tank size
200 cm
Eats plants
not known
Keeping in groups is necessary.
unknown
 
long
10 - 12 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
I / 6 rays
9 soft rays
10 - 12 soft rays
greatly incised / concave, pointed
I / 6 rays
9 soft rays
Sympatric with
not known
- Azpelicueta, M. de las M., 1998 "A new species of Pimelodus (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from the Paraguay and lower Paraná rivers" (Neotropica (La Plata)) P. 94
- Azpelicueta, M. de las M., 2001 "A new species of Pimelodus (Siluriformes:Pimelodidae) from the upper Paraná basin, Brazil" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters) P. 198
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 439
- Perugia, Alberto, 1891 "Di alcuni pesci Sud-Americani" (Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, Vol. 30 Ser. 2, P. 631)
- Marini, T.L., Nichols, J.T. & LaMonte, F.R., 1933 "Six new eastern South American Fishes examined in the American Museum of Natural History" (American Museum Novitates, No. 618)
- López, H.L.; Miquelarena,A.M. & Menni, R.C., 2003 "Lista comentada de los peces continentales de la Argentina" (ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica, No. 5, P. 58)
- Souza-Filho, H.S. de & Shibatta, O.A., 2007 "Descrição de uma espécie nova de Pimelodus (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae) da bacia do alto rio Paraguai" (Iheringia. Série Zoologia, Vol. 97 No. 4)
- Britski, H.A.; Silimon, K.Z.S. & Lopes, B.S., 2007 "Peixes do Pantanal-Manual de Identificação"
- Ribeiro, F.R.V.; de Lucena, C.A.S. & Oyakawa, O.T., 2011 "A new species of Pimelodus La Cépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from rio Ribeira de Iguape basin, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 9 No. 1, P. 128)
- Rocha, M.S. & Pavanelli, C.S., 2012 "Taxonomy of Pimelodus brevis Marini, Nichols & La Monte, 1933 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae), an uncertain species from the rio Paraná basin" (Neotropical Ichthyology, 12(4), P. 755)
- Costa e Silva, T.; Ribeiro, F.V.R.; Lucena, C.A.S. & Lucinda, P.H.F., 2018 "Pimelodus speciosus (Teleostei: Pimelodidae), a new catfish species from the rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil" (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 28, No. 2, P. 105)
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