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Auchenipterus menezesi Ferraris & Vari, 1999

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The genus Auchenipterus is closely related to and is similar to, Epapterus and Pseudepapterus. Aquarium Care: Good community catfish with normal sized patrons but not to be trusted with small Tetras for instance, which will be picked of at night on its twilight patrols. Diet: In its natural habitat, microcrustaceans, algae, and insects were among the food found routinely in the gut contents. Can be fed most aquarium fare such as good quality flake, white worm, tablet and pellet foods and frozen foods such as bloodworm. Better to feed at lights out until they get accustomed to the daytime feeding regime when they may very well join in. Etymology: The specific name, menezesi, is in honour of Dr. Rui Simões de Menezes, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil, in recognition to his studies of the life history of freshwater fishes of northeastern Brazil, including this species.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Auchenipteridae

Distribution:

South America: Parnaíba and Pindaré-Mirim River basins of Maranhão and Piaui, Brazil. Type locality: Lago de Viana, Rio Pindaré, Mirim basin, Maranhão, Brazil.

Size:

13.0cm. (5ins)

Temp:

24-27°c (75-81°f.)

p.H.

6.0-7.2.

Reference:

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr. and R.P. Vari, 1999. The South American catfish genus Auchenipterus Valenciennes, 1840 (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae): monophyly and relationships, with a revisionary study. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. (126):387-450.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 08/2022 )
Vieira LO, Campos DS, Oliveira RF, South J, Coelho MS.P, Paiva MJ.S, Bragança PH.N, Guimarães EC, Katz AM, Brito PS, Santos JP, Ottoni FP (2023) Checklist of the fish fauna of the Munim River Basin, Maranhão, north-eastern Brazil. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e98632.

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Auchenipterus menezesi
Munim River Basin

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