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Nemadoras hemipeltis (Eigenmann, 1925)

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Aquarium Care: Best kept in groups in a large aquarium as they will not do well singularly. Avoid boisterous or aggressive tankmates as this is a shy species that will hide out during the day and appear for food at night under darkness. Provide a dimly lit tank with floating plants. Diet: Tubifex, Daphnia, Cyclops. Once settled in they will take frozen foods, flake and tablet foods. Etymology: The specific name hemipeltis: hemi-, from hêmisys (Gr.), half; peltis, from pélte (Gr.), small shield, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to fontanel “not continued as a groove to the dorsal plate”.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Opsodoras hemipeltis

Family:

Doradidae

Distribution:

South America: Amazon River basin. Type locality: Rio Ucayali at Contamana.

Size:

16.0cm. (6¼ins)

Temp:

23-28°C (73-83°F)

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

Reference:

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. 2020. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 12/2020 ).
Sabaj, M.H. and C.J. Ferraris Jr., 2003. Doradidae (Thorny catfishes). p. 456-469. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Nemadoras hemipeltis

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Nemadoras hemipeltis

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