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Felipe Alonso (2)

Description: Distinguished from most loricariines by total absence of abdominal plates, including the preanal plate. Members of Hartiella and a few species of Harttia also have the abdomen completely devoid of plates, and can be separated from species of Ixinandria by having 12 branched caudal-fin rays (vs. 10 in Ixinandria) and by the absence of postorbital notch, which is present in members of Ixinandria. Members of Crossoloricaria, Spatuloricaria, and Loricaria sometimes lack a preanal plate, but have small abdominal plates. Some species of Rineloricaria have a naked abdomen, but a preanal plate is always present, except in Rineloricaria setepovos which can be diagnosed from other loricariines by the shapes and number of premaxillary teeth. Ixinandria possesses wide and almost symmetrical tooth cusps, and up to 18 teeth in each premaxilla (vs. premaxilla with up to 13 narrow and clearly asymmetrical teeth in other loricariines, except Rineloricaria aequalicuspis which has up to 15 narrow teeth with nearly symmetrical cusps, and some hartiini, which also have many asymmetrical premaxillary teeth). Habitat: This species is found in fast flowing waters between 15 and 65 cm depth, especially in places with filamentous algae, in mountainous areas at altitudes ranging from around 200 to 2900 meters above sea level. During the day, it occurs in fast flowing and highly oxygenated waters, with stony bottom, usually hiding under the stones. Reproduction: The Rineloricaria species are usually cave spawners, where the female will place their eggs after the male has cleaned inside. The male will then guard and fan the eggs until hatching. The eggs will hatch in 4-5 days whereas the male can now be removed. More breeding information can be found here in the articles breeding section. Aquarium Care: As with all Rineloricaria provide long leaved plants or bamboo stalks for them to hang on to. Diet: Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen. Remarks: On some online searches this species is still listed as Ixinandria steinbachi which is now a synonym. Catalog of Fishes has the current valid status of R. steinbachi (2020).

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Canthopomus montebelloi, Ixinandria montebelloi, Loricaria steinbachi

Loricariidae

South America: Upper río Juramento basin, río Salado drainage in Salta (Argentina), upper río Bermejo in northwestern Argentina and southern Bolivia, and upper río Pilcomayo in southern Bolivia. Type locality: Salta, Argentina.

11.0cm (4¼ins)

20-24°c (67-75°f)

6.0-7.0.

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. 2019. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 08/2019 ).
Rodriguez, M.S., C.A. Cramer, S.L. Bonatto and R.E. Reis, 2008. Taxonomy of Ixinandria Isbrücker & Nijssen (Loricariidae: Loricariinae) based on morphological and molecular data. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 6(3):367-378.