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Rhamdia nicaraguensis (Günther, 1864)

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Habitat: Lives in rivers and creeks between 20 and 1160 m elevation in currents of low to moderate velocity, with stony bottoms and substrata of sand and mud. Aquarium Care: In the aquarium you should treat this species as you would any "Pim" and house them with tank mates that are the same size or larger and who occupy a different layer of the tank be it mid water or top. Provide plenty of hiding places if you intend to keep more than one individual. Diet: Feeds mainly on aquatic insects, seeds and small fish. Etymology: The specific name nicaraguensis: –ensis, suffix denoting place: Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua, type locality (also occurs in Costa Rica).

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Pimelodus nicaraguensis, Pimelodus managuensis, Rhamdia alfaroi, Rhamdia luigiana

Family:

Heptapteridae

Distribution:

Central America: River basins in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Type locality: Lake of Nicaragua.

Size:

26.0cm. TL (10¼ins)

Temp:

24-26°C (75-79°F)

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

Reference:

Bockmann, F.A. and G.M. Guazzelli, 2003. Heptapteridae (Heptapterids). p. 406-431. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Fish in the News (2024)
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2021. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (05/2021).
Topiltzin Contreras-MacBeath, Byron Josue Rodríguez Pérez, Humberto Mejia-Mojica, Juan Manuel Rivas-González. Fishes of Cocibolca, the great Central American lake. Journal of Threatened Taxa, Vol. 16 No. 1 (2024). DOI:
www.inaturalist.org

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Rhamdia nicaraguensis
Provincia de Alajuela, Los Chiles, Costa Rica

Rhamdia nicaraguensis
Lago Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua)

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