Author: Zawadzki, Birindelli & Lima, 2012
Comments: Inhabits rapid stretches.  Collected in the rio Culuene in the former rapids which are now the current area of  reservoir Paranatinga II.  The type locality is used to be a rapid area that dried out after the construction of the the Paranatinga II hydroelectric Dam and this species still exists at a fish ladder built at the type locality and certainly also at rapids situated both above (at the mouth of the rio Maria) and below the reservoir (Cachoeira do Adelino).  Sympatric with <i>Hypostomus faveolus</i> (Ref. 91068).