The name is sometimes accepted
in some quarters as Hemiloricaria melini. Aquarium
Care: A black water species that requires
soft, acidic water to spawn. Diet:
Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other
various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen.
Common
Name:
Apache whiptail catfish
Synonyms:
Hemiloricaria melini
Family:
Loricariidae
Distribution:
South America:
Amazon River basin, Brazil. Type Locality:
Rio Solimoes beim Ort Manacapuru, nahe der Mündung
des Rio Negro, Brazil.
Size:
10.0cm (4ins)
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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