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Lasiancistrus saetiger Armbruster, 2005

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Description: Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 5. This species can be distinguished from Lasiancistrus heteracanthus and L. guacharote by having no plates on the abdomen; differs from L. schomburgkii by having large white spots on the head (vs. small white spots), with plates of the body outlined in black (vs. entire body uniformly dark), and absence of spots in the dorsal and caudal fins (vs. usually with small white spots); differs from L. tentaculatus by having whiskers on the snout of nuptial males (vs. tentacules longer than their associated odontodes); and from L. caucanus and L. tentaculatus by lacking dark spots in the dorsal and caudal fins (vs. with dark spots). Habitat: Lasiancistrus saetiger is known from a single collection of fishes from the rio Guamá, a tributary of the rio Capim, a drainage that enters the Atlantic just southeast of the mouth
of the Amazon. Aquarium Care: Relatively easy to keep but large males may tend to be territorial. Sexual Differences: Males have longer pectoral fins and have a heavier growth of odontodes behind the gill covers and on the edges of the snout. Diet: Omnivore. Pretty similar to the Ancistrus genera with a vegetable diet. Will also take tablets/wafers, fine live and frozen foods.

Common Name:

L322, Mosaic Halffin Pleco

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Guama River, Capim River basin, Brazil. Type locality: Brazil, Pará, rio Guamá near Ourém, 1º34'07"S, 47º10'08"W.

Size:

10.0cm. (4ins)

Temp:

25-29°c (77-85°f.)

p.H.

6.0-7.5.

Reference:

Armbruster, J.W., 2005. The loricariid catfish genus Lasiancistrus (Siluriformes) with descriptions of two new species. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 3(4):549-569.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 02/2022 ).

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Lasiancistrus saetiger

Lasiancistrus saetiger
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