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Hemiancistrus landoni Eigenmann 1916

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Habitat: This species is common in the Guayas River drainage. Description: Hemiancistrus landoni differs from other loricariids by the following characters: Interopercle with eight large stiff spines and twenty to thirty smaller spines; six bony plates between dorsal and adipose fins, fifteen lateral body plates along the side; mouth inferior, with a single row of numerous fine depressible moveable teeth in each jaw (Glodek, 1978). Aquarium Care: Good aquarium habitants for a medium to large tank and you can also house more than one species. They like water movement in the aquarium. Diet: Mainly a vegetarian diet but can also be fed tablet foods and frozen and live foods such as mosquito larvae, brine shrimp and shrimps. Etymology: The specific name landoni: In honour of American businessman and philanthropist Hugh McKennan Landon (1867–1947), who helped finance expedition during which holotype was collected. Remarks: Hemiancistrus is also known in some literature as Ancistomus but is also similar to the Peckoltia genera but has a longer body and a naked ventral region.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Guayas River basin, Ecuador. Type Locality: Naranjito, Ecuador.

Size:

25.0cm. (10ins)

Temp:

24-28°c (75-83°f.)

p.H.

6.0-7.2.

IUCN Red List

Hemiancistrus landoni is distributed throughout the Guayas, Arenillas, Puyango and Zaracay rivers on the Pacific slope of Ecuador. Extent of Occurrence (EOO) is estimated to be 19,532-32,211 km2. Total population size and population trend are unknown. A number of threats in Western Ecuador are producing inferred continuous declines in habitat quality. However, their direct impact on H. landoni are largely unknown. Uncertainty regarding the scope of existing threats and limited ichthyological survey in western Ecuador prevent an accurate estimation of the number of threat-based locations where this species occurs. Given a relatively broad range and no indication of major range-wide population decline, H. landoni is assessed as Least Concern (IUCN 2021).

Reference:

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. 2021. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 02/2021 ).
Lyons, T.J. 2021. Hemiancistrus landoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.
Windsor, Aquirre. Freshwater Fishes of Western Ecuador. 05/2021.

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