Allan James
(2) Hans-Georg Evers (1) Mitsuhiro
Iwamoto (2) Kiruya Momochi (3)
ScotCat
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Aquarium Care:
Not an easy species to keep and breed. They are reported
when disturbed that they get very nervous and eat
their eggs. Diet:Omnivore.
Vegetable food such as cucumber and other various
foods such as tablet, flake and frozen. Etymology:
The genus name meaning rine-rasp, referring to sharp
bristles on sides of snout (of males); Loricaria,
genus in which type species, R. lima, had
originally been described. The specific name of teffeana
meaning, –ana, belonging to: Amazon River near
Teffé (now spelled Tefé), Amazonas State,
Brazil, the type locality.
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