🐟Hypostomus plecostomus
Hypostomus plecostomus es un conocido pez de acuario del orden Siluriformes, originario de Sudamérica. Puede encontrarse desde Costa Rica hasta Argentina, especialmente en Perú, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guyana y México. También pueden encontrarse en países como Puerto rico y República Dominicana donde se consideran una plaga. Coloquialmente, es conocido como chupaalgas, pez limpiacristales, pez diablo, pez gato, chupacristales, chupavidrios, cucha, corroncho, limpia peceras, limpiavidrios, chupapiedras, plecos, vieja del agua, panche, etcétera. Es un pez que nada en ríos y riachuelos.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.28 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Hypostomus plecostomus
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.28 mrecord 0.25 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Trophic level2.5FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietomnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 2.5 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Hypostomus plecostomus yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderSiluriformes
- ›familyLoricariidae
- ›genusHypostomus
- ›speciesHypostomus plecostomus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderSiluriformes
- suborderLoricaroidei
- familyLoricariidae
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderCharaciphysae
- orderSiluriformes
- suborderLoricaroidei
- familyLoricariidae
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