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Mees (1974) assigned this species to Tatia but Ferraris (2007) reverted it back to the original genera of Centromochlus. Just recently (September 2019) due to earlier work carried out by U.K. aquarist and amateur ichthyologist Steven Grant (2015) a new paper was released by Bárbara B. Calegari et al whereas this species C. perugiae and C. altae were reclassified to a new genus, Duringlanis. As stated in this paper some species treated as Tatia and Centromochlus are assigned to genera that were not previously recognised as valid. Reproduction: Has been bred in the aquarium where they leave their eggs in a gelatinous mass under stones or bogwood. As of this family the male will fertilise the female internally. Aquarium Care: Keeping this rare small species is not too much of a problem as long as the water is kept clean and not too alkaline with a p.H.of between 6.5 and 7.0. They do like a planted aquarium where they like to hide during the day. Diet: In its native habitat they feed on insects, mostly ants, beetles, and mayflies and in the aquarium they will eat anything given such as frozen bloodworm which they will come out of hiding to feed on, catfish tablets, daphnia, white worm (sparingly) and any other worm-like foods. Etymology: The genus name Duringlanis: "Durin Catfish" after Durin The Deathless from the Lord of the Rings Legendarium. Durin was the first created dwarf and the name is used in allusion to the dwarf species in the genus. The specific name romani: in honour of Benigno Roman Gonzalez (1913-1993), herpetologist, ichthyologist and Jesuit monk, who collected type.

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Tatia romani, Centromochlus romani

Auchenipteridae

Venezuela: San Juan River, Orinoco Basin. Type locality: Río Guarapiche, affluent of the Río San Juan, near Maturín, Monagas, Venezuela.

3.0cm (1¼ins)

22-25°c (71-77°f.)

6.0-7.0.

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Grant, S., 2015: Four new subgenera of Centromochlus Kner, 1858 with comments on the boundaries of some related genera (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae: Centromochlinae). Ichthyofile 3: 1–16.
Sarmento-Soares, Luisa Maria; Martins-Pinheiro, Ronaldo Fernando A systematic revision of Tatia (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae: Centromochlinae) Neotropical Ichthyology, 6(3):495-542, 2008.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.