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This species has been placed in some quarters in either the Ancistomus or Hemiancistrus genera as there are differences in body length from Peckoltia and also them having a naked ventral region, there is a good argument for this case. Description: Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7 - 7; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 4. Small spots on the head with spots becoming very large on the caudal peduncle and caudal fin; body very elongated; odontodes on opercle absent, rarely with one or two odontodes in adults. Found in medium to large rivers among boulders. Aquarium Care: Very good aquarium additions and several specimens can be kept in a medium sized aquarium. Diet: Mostly vegetarian but can also be fed frozen and live feeds of mosquito larvae and brine shrimp. Etymology: Named in honour of Dr. Mark Henry Sabaj, Collection Manager of Ichthyology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and webmaster of the All Catfish Species Inventory website. Remarks: Listed in Fishbase as Hemiancistrus sabaji but in the Catalog of Fishes the current status is P. sabaji.

L075, L124, L301, LDA02, Para Pleco

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Loricariidae

Venezuela: Rupununi, Essequibo and Takutu River basins, Guyana, and Casiquiare and Orinoco basins. Type locality: Guyana: Rupununi (Region 9), Essequibo River Dr., Rupununi R. 5.9 km WSW village of Sand Creek, 02.96656º, –059.56943º.

25.0cm. (10ins)

26-30°c (79-87°f)

6.0-7.5.

Armbruster, J.W. 2003 Peckoltia sabaji, a new species from the Guyana Shield (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa 344: 1-12.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Seidel, I. 2008. Back to Nature guide to L-catfishes, Ettlingen, Germany 208 p.