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Rineloricaria hasemani Isbrücker & Nijssen 1979

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Aquarium Care: An easy species to keep with no excessive demands on water parameters. As with all Rineloricaria provide long leaved plants or bamboo stalks for them to hang on to. Diet: Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen. Remarks: As with most of this genera identification can be problematic unless you know the provenance of the individual species.

Common Name:

Hasemans whiptail catfish

Synonyms:

Hemiloricaria hasemani

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Lower Amazon or Tocantins River basin, Brazil. Type Locality: Brazil, Est. Pará, Maguarý near Belém, along the Bragança railroad (Bragança, 1º02'S, 46º46'W), in forest streams.

Size:

15cm. (6ins)

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.

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Rineloricaria hasemani

Rineloricaria hasemani

Rineloricaria hasemani
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