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Rineloricaria heteroptera Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1976

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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: As with all Rineloricaria/Hemiloricaria 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. Etymology: The specific name heteroptera: ihetero-, different; ptera, fin, referring to “unexpected variability” (5 or 6) in the number of dorsal-fin rays. Remarks: Recently designated as type of a monotypic genus, Leliella, by Isbrücker (2001: 20).

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Leliella heteroptera

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Amazon River basin near Manaus, Brazil. Type locality: Brazil, Est. Amazonas. Creek in reserve Ducke, near Manaus (03º06'S, 60º00'W).

Size:

13.0cm. (5ins)

Temp:

20-25°c (67-77°f)

p.H.

6.2-7.2.

Reference:

Baensch, H.A. and R. Riehl, 1991. Aquarien atlas. Bd. 3. Melle: Mergus, Verlag für Natur-und Heimtierkunde, Germany. 1104 p.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2003. Loricariidae - Loricariinae (Armored catfishes). p. 330-350. 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.
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. 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 06/2023 ).
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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