AnimalvsAnimal
🐟no photo yet

No photo yet — browse the gallery for other animals.

SpeciesSiluriformesLoricariidae
Fish

🐟Hypostomus plecostomus

Hypostomus plecostomus (Linnaeus, 1758)

下口鯰（学名：Hypostomus plecostomus），又名琵琶鼠、下口鯰、垃圾魚，原产於南美洲亞馬遜河流域，为骨甲鯰科下口鯰屬下的一个种，對水汙染容忍度高。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
9
Photos
None yet
Measurements
4
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
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
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Hypostomus plecostomus

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body length
0.28 mrecord 0.25 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
Details ↓

Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Trophic level
2.5
FishBase
Details ↓

Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
omnivoreaverage
Details ↓

From trophic level 2.5 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
FishBase
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familyLoricariidae
  5. ›genusHypostomus
  6. ›speciesHypostomus plecostomus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderSiluriformes
  3. suborderLoricaroidei
  4. familyLoricariidae
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderCharaciphysae
  10. orderSiluriformes
  11. suborderLoricaroidei
  12. familyLoricariidae
More

More about the Hypostomus plecostomus

In other languages
下口鯰 (zh), Hypostomus plecostomus (es), Hypostomus plecostomus (ca), Paprastasis gerklažiotis šamukas (lt), Hypostomus plecostomus (it), Hypostomus plecostomus (nl) … and 16 more languages

镜头下的动物

站内动物的实拍影像——捕猎、打斗，还有各自过日子的样子。

查看全部 9 个视频 →
Tools

Compare the Hypostomus plecostomus

Pick a tool — the Hypostomus plecostomus is already selected.

Side by side

Compare every stat with any other animal.

997 animals to compareOpen →
Who's bigger?

Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.

Weight not recordedOpen →
Scaling lab

How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.

Not in the sampleOpen →
Tree of life

See where it sits in the tree of life.

12 branchesOpen →