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Habitat: This species occurs in the Santiago-Cayapas River basin in Ecuador (Barriga 2012) and in the Atrato, Baudo, San Juan, and Telembi Rivers in the Pacific drainages of Colombia and the Cauca and Patia River basins of Colombia (Maldonado-Ocampo et al. 2005). The type locality is the Durango River in northwestern Ecuador at an elevation of 106 m (Ferraris 2007). This species occurs between 10 to 500 m asl. Aquarium Care: Not exported very often but should be an easy species to keep with no excessive demands on water parameters. Diet: Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen.

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Loricaria jubata, Hemiloricaria jubata

Loricariidae

South America: Mira and Esmeraldas River basins, Pacific drainage, Ecuador (Ferraris, 2003c); and Patia River basin, Colombia (Maldonado-Ocampo et al., 2005). Type Locality: Northwestern Ecuador, St. Javier (60 feet), and the Rio Durango, elev. (350 feet) [restricted to the Durango River by lectotype designation].

21.0cm. (8¼ins)

24-27°c (75-79°f)

6.0-7.5.

Arguello, P. & Jimenez-Prado, P. 2016. Rineloricaria jubata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
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.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2021. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.www.fishbase.org, ( 07/2021 ).