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Rineloricaria kronei (Miranda Ribeiro, 1911)

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Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (3)

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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: Non problematic in a community or species tank with good water parameters. Diet: Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen. Etymology: The specific name kronei: In honour of German-born Brazilian pharmacist-naturalist Sigismund Ernst Richard (Ricardo) Krone (1861–1917), who discovered this species.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Loricaria kronei

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Ribeira de Iguapé River basin (Brazil). Type locality: Rio Iporanga, S. Paulo [Brazil]. Holotype: MNRJ (not found).

Size:

Temp:

23-26°c (73-77°f)

p.H.

6.5-7.2.

IUCN Red List

Rineloricaria kronei is a species described from the Iporanga River, Ribeira de Iguape River basin, São Paulo, whose holotype is missing. Inconsistencies regarding the taxonomic delimitation of the species hinder its proper identification. Even so, specimens sampled in this basin are regularly identified as R. kronei, being frequent and relatively abundant. Since no direct threats affecting the populations identified as Rineloricaria kronei have been identified , it has been categorised as Least Concern (LC), (IUCN 2022).

Reference:

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. 2026.FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 06/2026 ).
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). 2022. Rineloricaria kronei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Rinelolricaria kronei

Rinelolricaria kronei
Ventral view

Rinelolricaria kronei
Dorsal view

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