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Rineloricaria castroi Isbrücker & Nijssen 1984

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Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (4)

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Rineloricaria castroi is similar looking to R. phoxocephala which has its pectoral and ventral fins hyaline, wheras H. castroi has black bands to these fins. Reproduction: The Rineloricaria species are usually cave spawners, where the female will place their eggs after the male has cleaned inside. The male will then guard and fan the eggs until hatching. The eggs will hatch in 4-5 days whereas the male can now be removed. More breeding information can be found here in the articles breeding section. Aquarium Care: Not an easy species to keep with excessive demands on good water quality. Prefers water movement in the aquarium. Diet: Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen. Etymology: The specific name castroi: In honour of ichthyologist Ricardo Macedo Corrêa e Castro, Universidade de São Paulo, who collected type.

Common Name:

Castro's whiptail catfish

Synonyms:

Hemiloricaria castroi

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Trombetas River basin, Brazil. Type Locality: Brazil, Est. Pará, Trapiche da Reserva Biológica de Trombetas, Rio Trombetas.

Size:

18.0cm. (7ins)

Temp:

26-29°c (79-87°f)

p.H.

6.0-7.5.

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. 2019. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.www.fishbase.org, ( 02/2019 ).
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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