Author: Crampton, de Santana, Waddell & Lovejoy, 2017
Comments: It inhabits low-conductivity blackwater terra firme rainforest streams and swamps, where it is found in association with submerged roots and leaf litter.  In the area of the type locality, it feeds on small aquatic invertebrates and spawns during the rainy season, approximately December to April.  In the lower río Ucayali of the type locality region, it occurs sympatrically and syntopically with <i>Brachyhypopomus beebei</i>, <i>B. benjamini</i>, <i>B. brevirostris</i>, <i>B. sullivani</i>, and <i>B. walteri</i> (Ref. 116763).