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Hemiancistrus punctulatus Cardoso & Malabarba, 1999

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Aquarium Care: Good aquarium habitants for a large tank and you can also house more than one species. They like water movement in the aquarium. Lower tempertures for this species is recommended. 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 punctulatus: Diminutive of punctum (L.), spot, i.e., having tiny spots, referring to small dark spots on dorsal and lateral plates. 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:

Southern Blackspotted Pleco

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Laguna dos Patos basin, Brazil. Type locality: Rio dos Sinos, João Fernandes beach, Caraá, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (approx. 29º45'87"S, 50º25'68"W).

Size:

19.0cm. (7½ins)

Temp:

20-24°c (67-75°f.)

p.H.

6.5-7.2.

IUCN Red List

Hemiancistrus punctulatus is endemic to Brazil, occurring in the Patos Lagoon system in Rio Grande do Sul. The species is widely distributed, frequent, and abundant. As no significant threats to its population have been detected, Hemiancistrus punctulatus has been categorised as Least Concern (LC), (IUCN 2022).

Reference:

Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio). 2022. Hemiancistrus punctulatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.
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. 2020. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 12/2020 ).
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Hemiancistrus punctulatus
Cañada del Vigia Region-Cerro Largo, Uruguay

Hemiancistrus punctulatus
Mouth view-Cañada del Vigia Region-Cerro Largo, Uruguay

Hemiancistrus punctulatus
Location-Cañada del Vigia Region-Cerro Largo, Uruguay

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