Description

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Common Names

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杂点下口鲶 , Mandarin Chinese , China

雜點下口鯰 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Cascudo , Portuguese , Argentina

Vieja , Spanish , Argentina

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Siluriformes

Family: Loricariidae

Genus: Hypostomus

Species: Hypostomus variostictus (Miranda Ribeiro, 1912)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Biology

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

Habitat

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demersal