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Aspidoras sp. (CW225)

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Relevant Information:

The latest CW number (2026) from the CorydorasWorld website. Lineage: All Aspidoras belong to Lineage 2 with the type species of A. rochai Ihering, 1907. Aquarium Care: Best kept in groups of six or more and are best housed with small fishes that are not aggressive. Although no plants occur in their habitat you can still provide a planted area in the tank for cover and include a soft substrate such as sand or small rounded gravel Diet: Flake, tablet foods, small live and frozen foods. Remarks: Many species of Aspidoras are difficult to tell apart unless there is area catchment information available.

Common Name:

CW225

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Callichthyidae

Distribution:

South America: Brazil. Mato Grosso, upper Tele Pires.

Size:

Male: 3.5cm (1½ins) Female: 4.0cm (1¾ins)

Temp:

22-26°C (71-79°F)

p.H.

6.0-7.5.

IUCN Red List

Not Evaluated.

Reference:

Alexandrou, Markos & Taylor, Martin. (2011). Evolution, ecology and taxonomy of the Corydoradinae revisited.
Angelica C Dias, Luiz F C Tencatt, Fabio F Roxo, Gabriel de Souza da Costa Silva, Sérgio A Santos, Marcelo R Britto, Martin I Taylor, Claudio Oliveira, Phylogenomic analyses in the complex Neotropical subfamily Corydoradinae (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) with a new classification based on morphological and molecular data, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024;, zlae053.
www.corydorasworld.com

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Aspidoras sp. (CW225)
Male

Aspidoras sp. (CW225)
Female

Aspidoras sp. (CW225)
Dorsal view

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