Description

Vertebrae: 28 - 27. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the presence of an elongated dark spot along the middle caudal-fin branched rays, not involving the lanceolate plates at the base of the fin; the spot is typically extended over equal number of upper- and lower-lobe branched rays and along more than two thirds of the ray length (Ref. 84367).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Siluriformes

Family: Loricariidae

Genus: Hypoptopoma

Species: Hypoptopoma psilogaster Fowler, 1915

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274)

Habitat

demersal