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Rineloricaria parva (Boulenger 1895)

 

Image contributors to this species:

Yann Fulliquet (1) Helen Burns (1) Allan James (4) Johnny Jensen's Photographic Library (1) Gert Blank (3) Ivor Hilton (5)

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Relevant Information:

Still seen on some online searches as Hemiloricaria parva. This in my opinion is one of the most difficult whiptail species to identify with any great certainty as being easy to breed they are abundant in fish show and club auctions and are just sold as Rineloricaria sp., they could be anyone of half a dozen species or even crosses between two close species as a few of them have the cross banding on the body area but in the main R. parva should have double extensions to the caudal lobes. Aquarium Care: 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. Reproduction: Provide caves or pipework where the females will lay their eggs as in the wild they are laid in hollow logs or branches. The male takes over the guarding of the green coloured eggs and they hatch, depending on water temperature, between 3 and 10 days. Remarks: The Loricariinae sp. LG06 which has been around in the hobby and has also been bred is now been mooted as being R. parva.

Common Name:

Common Whiptail Catfish, LG06

Synonyms:

Loricaria parva, Hemiloricaria parva

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay: Paraguay River basin. Type locality: Descalvados, Matto Grosso Brazil.

Size:

12.5cm. (5ins)

Temp:

23-26°c (73-79°f)

p.H.

6.5-7.5.

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.

ScotCat Factsheet no.69. March 2002.



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Two days old

 

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