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Rhadinoloricaria ommation (Nijssen & Isbrücker 1988)

Image contributors to this species:

Johnny Jensen's Photographic Library (3) Graham Carr (1) Haakon Haagensen (2) Erlend D. Bertelsen (1)

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Relevant Information:

Smaller relation to the Planiloricaria genera. There is four species that used to be in the Apistoloricaria genus but now moved into Rhadinoloricaria, R. condei, R. laani, R. listrorhinos and R. ommation. Aquarium Care: Relatively easy to keep providing a fine sand substrate. Diet: Not fussy and will eat most prepared aquarium foods such as tablet, frozen and live foods. Remarks: Apistoloricaria ommation is now a junior synoynm of Rhadinoloricaria ommation. Still listed on some online searches as the previous name (synonym) of Apistoloricaria ommation.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Apistoloricaria ommation

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Upper Amazon River drainage, lower Marañón River, Peru. Type locality: Pérou, Dept. Loreto, environs d’Iquitos, Rio Amazonas (Maranon) entre l’île Iquitos et l’île Lapuna, près du rivage de l’île Lapuna.

Size:

10.0cm. (4ins)

Temp:

24-27°c (75-81°f)

p.H.

6.5-7.2.

Reference:

Evers, H.-G. & I.Seidel: Mergus, Baensch Catfish Atlas Volume 1, 1st English edn., 2005. Pp.944.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2014. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 11/2014 ).

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Rhadinoloricaria ommation

Rhadinoloricaria ommation
Head view

Rhadinoloricaria ommation

Rhadinoloricaria ommation
Male carrying eggs

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