Description

Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7. Presence of 20-22 lateral plates; 5 branched anal-fin rays. Absence of pad on snout tip. Blunt and deep snout, snout 45.5-50.9% in HL; eye 13.4-17.1% in HL. Absence of predorsal unpaired plates. Vent completely covered by two rows of large lateral platelets and one median series with irregular plates (Ref. 72404).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Siluriformes

Family: Loricariidae

Genus: Hisonotus

Species: Hisonotus hungy Azpelicueta, Almirón, Casciotta & Koerber, 2007

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Inhabits stream with two different environment, one which has the natural vegetation of the region and the other one which has introduced coniferous trees. This fish occurs in the portion of the stream where a plantation of small coniferous trees exposes the brook completely to sunlight (Ref. 72404).

Habitat

demersal