Laemolyta taeniataStriped Headstander
Kner, 1858
Max length
288mm SL11in SL
The striped headstander, Laemolyta taeniata, is an anostomid from the central Amazon basin, also recorded from the Orinoco system in Venezuela. The largest-growing member of the genus, to 288 mm SL, it is rarely seen in the aquarium trade. Something of a habitat generalist, it migrates into flooded forest in the wet season and has been seen in large migratory shoals with Leporinus fasciatus and L. agassizii. Water quality is of the utmost importance, and anostomids are prodigious jumpers.
