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Chaetostoma dermorhynchum Boulenger, 1887

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Aquarium Care: Will need a good water flow in the aquarium with a sand substrate and plenty of hiding places. Diet: Great algae eater, but you will have to subsidise this food with algae wafers and vegetable foods such as cucumber, zucchini and lettuce. Will also except tablet and worm foods. Sexual Differences: Males have better colour, a broader head and lips and adult males possess longer ventral fins than the females. Etymology: The specific name dermorhynchum: Skin-nosed, from dérma, skin, and rhýnchos, snout, referring to “entire margin of the snout naked, soft, swollen, without tentacles”. Remarks: The Chaetostoma species are not the easiest to maintain as the mountain stream species will need a water current to provide oxygen-rich water.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Pastaza, upper Bobonaza, Napo, and upper Curaray River basins in Ecuador. Type locality: Canelos [Bobonaza River]; eastern Ecuador.

Size:

25.0cm TL. (10ins)

Temp:

23-27°c (73-81°f.)

p.H.

6.5-7.5.

IUCN Red List

The species is listed as Data Deficient due to the lack of data on its exact range, population size and threats (needs updating IUCN 2016).

Reference:

Anderson, E., Arguello, P. & Jimenez-Prado, P. 2016. Chaetostoma dermorhynchum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Fisch-Muller, S., 2003. Loricariidae-Ancistrinae (Armored catfishes). p. 373-400. 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.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 05/2023 ).
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Chaetostoma dermorhynchum

Chaetostoma dermorhynchum
Dorsal view

Chaetostoma dermorhynchum
Ventral view

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