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Rhamdia laukidi Bleeker, 1858

Image contributors to this species:

Cortés Hernández, M. et al 2023 (1)

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Aquarium Care: In the aquarium you should treat this species as you would any "Pim" and house them with tank mates that are the same size or larger and who occupy a different layer of the tank be it mid water or top. Provide plenty of hideing places if you intend to keep more than one individual. This is one of the larger species in this genus so a large tank would be needed. Diet: Not fussy so should be fed the usual aquarium foods such as flake, tablets, pellets, frozen and live food. Provide a varied diet. Etymology: The specific name laukidi: Local Arawak name for this species in Guyana.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Pimelodus holomelas, Rhamdia tenella

Family:

Heptapteridae

Distribution:

South America: Amazon, Essequibo and Orinoco River basins: Brazil, Colombia and Guyana. Type locality: Venezuela, Est. Amazonas, first Río Casiquiare caño, ca. 5 min. from confluence of Río Casiquiare and Río Orinoco left side, Caño Caripo, ca. 3 km from mouth; 03 06'N, 65 50'W.

Size:

33.0cm. (13¼ins)

Temp:

24-26°C (75-79°F)

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

Reference:

Bockmann, F.A. and G.M. Guazzelli, 2003. Heptapteridae (Heptapterids). p. 406-431. 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.
Cortés Hernández, M. Ángel, Suarez Contento, L. Y., Baquero, E. A., & Collazos Lasso, L. F. (2023). Fish diversity of a tributary of the Meta River, in the flat highlands of the colombian Orinoquia. Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 449–471.
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. 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 10/2023 ).
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Rhamdia laukidi
Orinoco River basin-Mitimiti stream

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