Description

---

Common Names

---

Guaimingué , Guarani , Paraguay

Pirá tatu , Guarani , Paraguay

特氏下口鯰 , Mandarin Chinese , China

特氏下口鲶 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Cascudo , Portuguese , Brazil

Cascarudo , Spanish , Paraguay

Taxonomic Hierarchy

---

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Siluriformes

Family: Loricariidae

Genus: Hypostomus

Species: Hypostomus ternetzi (Boulenger, 1895)

Climate Zone

---

Tropical

Location

---

Biology

---

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Deposits eggs in nests excavated in stream banks (Ref. 82067).

Habitat

---

demersal