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Some authors (Seidel 2008) place the Dekeyseria genus as Zonancistrus and state these species as being in the Dekeyseria brachyura group. Description: The Dekeyseria genera possess broad and flattened heads. Sexual Differences: Both sexes have odontodes to the pectoral and caudal spines with the males being somewhat longer. Aquarium Care: Whatever their true placing's they are relatively easy to keep in the aquarium. If you keep them in soft acid water they will sport their natural colours as seen in the supplied images. If the water is too hard their colours will be somewhat muted and they will take on a fright pattern. Diet: Omnivorous, veg, tablet and fine frozen foods. Reproduction: Has been bred in the hobby and the female will lay her eggs in pipework. Etymology: The genus name Dekeyseria: –ia (L. suffix), belonging to: French zoologist Pierre Louis Dekeyser (1914–1984), Universidade Federal da Paraíba (João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil). The specific name scaphirhyncha: Shovel-nosed, from skaphís, shovel, and rhýnchos, snout, referring to flat, shovel-shaped snout of S. rafinesquii (=platorynchus), referring to its depressed head with very broad snout, obtusely rounded in front.

Flat Head Pleco, L151, L216

Ancistrus scaphirhynchus, Peckoltia scaphyrhyncha

Loricariidae

South America: Upper course of the Rio Orinoco and the middle to lower Rio Amazon.

21.0cm. (8ins)

22-25°c (71-77°f.)

6.5-7.2.

Seidel, I. 2008. Back to Nature guide to L-catfishes, Ettlingen, Germany 208 p.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.