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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. Lays up to 200 green eggs. The male may be nervous if disturbed but rearing the fry separately poses no problems. Aquarium Care: R. latirostris adapts to its surroundings to the colouration of the substrate that it is sitting on. The third thumbnail down shows this trait. Better to be kept at the cool end of tropical temperatures due to the proximity that it is found in. Diet: Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen. Etymology: The specific name latirostris: latus, wide; rostris, snout, referring to its rounded snout, measuring half the length of its head.

Bristly whiptail catfish

Loricaria latirostris, Loricaria paulina, Rineloricaria paulina

Loricariidae

South America: Upper Paraná River basin. Type locality: Southern Brazil, Province São Paulo, Mogy-guassu River about 250 miles inland of Santos.

20.0cm. (8ins)

18-22°c (63-71°f)

6.0-7.0.

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.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.