Author: Kner, 1854
FBname: Bushymouth catfish
Remark: Synonymy based on examination of numerous specimens including syntypes of <i>Ancistrus dolichopterus</i>; no recent redescription, but see Eigenmann and Eigenmann (1890:448, as <i>Ancistrus temminckii</i>) for a complementary description, and Römer (1990) and Holota (1990) (both references as <i>Ancistrus</i> cf. <i>hoplogenys</i>) for figures of living specimens and reproduction observations in aquarium; 12S and 16S mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences used in molecular phylogenies by Montoya-Burgos et al. (1997: fig. 4; 1998: figs. 3 & 6; EMBL/GenBank Y08276; Y08324).
Comments: Aquarium keeping:  feeds on plants and roots; minimum aquarium size 80 cm (Ref. 51539).