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Habitat: Shallow, flowing water over small rocks
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Scientific Name	**Imparfinis pseudonemacheir** Mees & Cala, 1989
Common Name	Shrimp Catfish
Type Locality	Río Tucuragua, near Caicara, Bolívar, Venezuela.
Articles	- CotM 2010 April
Species Information
Size	40mm or 1.6" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
Habitat Information
Distribution	South America: Orinoco and Ucayali River basins. Amazon, Upper Amazon, Marañón, Ucayali (click on these areas to find other species found there) Orinoco (click on these areas to find other species found there) Log in to view data on a map.
IUCN Red List Category	Least Concern, range map and more is available on the IUCN species page. Last assessed 2020.
pH	6.5 - 7.5
Temperature	24.5-26.0°C or 76.1-78.8°F (Show species within this range)
Other Parameters	Prefer a brisk if not strong current, in nature they are found in only a few centimetres of water to about 60cm depth.
Husbandry Information
Feeding	Will feed on prepared and frozen foods. User data.
Furniture	Substrate should be fine sand, as they do hide in the substrate.
Compatibility	May eat fry from other fishes, but their overall size is small, so most fish will be fine - even neon tetras and such would be large enough to not become a meal.
Suggested Tankmates	Compatible with most fish that are not much larger or so small they become part of the menu.
Breeding	Unreported.
Breeding Reports	There is no breeding report.
Further Information
Reference	Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Series C, Biological and Medical Sciences) v. 92 (no. 3), pp 387, Fig. 2.
Registered Keepers	There are 6 registered keepers, view all "my cats" data.
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Last Update	2020 Sep 20 01:46 (species record created: 2002 Jun 12 00:00)