Author: Crampton, de Santana, Waddell & Lovejoy, 2017
Comments: Occurs in floodplain habitats with low conductivity.  Occurs sympatrically above the major series of rapids and falls in the lower Madeira with <i>Brachyhypopomus alberti</i>, <i>B. arrayae</i>, <i>B. bombilla</i>, <i>B. brevirostris</i>, <i>B. pinnicaudatus</i>, <i>B. sullivani</i>, and <i>B. walteri</i>; and sympatrically and syntopically below the lower Madeira rapids with <i>B. brevirostris</i>, <i>B. pinnicaudatus</i>, and <i>B. walteri</i> (Ref. 116763). Feeds on aquatic insect larvae and other small aquatic invertebrates (Ref. 116763).