Description

Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 4. This species is distingusied from its congeners by the following characters: teeth bifid (vs. spoon-shaped); dark spots on a light background (vs. light spots on a dark background or not spotted); without 4 rough lateral ridges on flanks (vs. strong ridges present in H. commersoni, H. spiniger, H. laplatae); plates in lateral series 28-30 (vs. < 28 in several species or 31-32 in H. laplatae); body height 13.3-18.1% in SL and head length 25.9-30.7 in SL (vs. 17.724.7% and 27.5-38.7, respectively in H. commersoni, H. spiniger, H. laplatae) (Ref. 121236).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Siluriformes

Family: Loricariidae

Genus: Hypostomus

Species: Hypostomus cordovae (Günther, 1880)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); The specimens were recently collected from seven rivers, where the substrate was mainly composed of sandstone boulders with patches of coarse sand and pebbles. It was found in well-oxygenated waters (6.9-11.2 mg/l) with strong current; water turbidity 1.29-75.1 NTU, conductivity 77-4.530 μS/cm, pH 7.8-8.8, and temperature 20.7-31.4°C (Ref. 121236).

Habitat

demersal