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Elko Kinlechner (1) Haakon Haagensen (1)

Description: Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 4; Vertebrae: 28. A small species with very depressed, wide body; short dorsal fin (3.6-4.1 times in SL); wide mouth; a small area of supraoccipital plate often depressed, slightly granular or without odontodes; exposed part of nuchal plate minute or totally covered by skin. Dermal plates along dorsal-fin base 6-7. Short interdorsal distance, 5.1-5.5 times in SL. Colouration: Dorsal and fins brownish with numerous small whitish spots, lips and belly yellowish, totally or mostly unpigmented. Aquarium Care: The Ancistrus genera make good community fish where they do not grow too big for the aquarium. Some species have different requirements in the aquarium so best to read up on the species you have whereas if they need higher oxygen requirements or not, or if they prefer cooler waters if they originate from the southern parts of South America against the species from further up north. Diet: Vegetable foods such as cucumber and courgette and also tablet and meaty foods. Also prefers soft wood in the diet. Reproduction: The female lays her eggs in caves or crevices... that the male has chosen and cleaned.... as a cluster. The male usually then guards the eggs after ejecting the female. The fry then cling to the sides of the cave and when they use up their yolk sac, which is around the four to seven day period, they will be ready to feed on infusuria, vegetable matter, brine shrimp naupli or micro worms. In a community tank a few will survive if enough hiding places are afforded to them. Remarks: Sometimes exported alongside Ancistrus minutes from the Rio Tocantins.

L032

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Loricariidae

South America: Upper Tocantins River basin, Brazil. Type locality: Brazil: Goiás: Minaçú: córrego Água Boa: small tributary of rio Bonito, a left bank tributary of the upper rio Tocantins, 10 km from Minaçú on road Minaçú-Campinaçu (13º35'S 48º14'W).

6.5cm. (2½ins)

22-27°c (71-81°f.)

6.0-7.2.

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Fisch-Muller, S., R. Mazzoni and C. Weber, 2001. Genetic and morphological evidences for two new sibling species of Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) in upper rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 12(4):289-304.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2011. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (03/2016).