Barredtail Cory, C022
February 23rd, 2014 — 6:55pm
This small species can be told apart from the similar-looking congener C. habrosus by possession of 4-5 (vs. 2-3) dark markings along the side of the body.
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Gulper Catfish
February 8th, 2014 — 2:49pm
An obligate predator by nature, but captive specimens readily accept strips of white fish, whole shrimp, earthworms, and similar once they are recognised as food.
Adult individuals are unlikely to require feeding on a daily basis with 1-2 meals per week sufficient.
3 comments » | Category: Siluriformes, The Rest
February 8th, 2014 — 1:27pm
A. taurus can be told apart from congeners by the following combination of characters: infraorbitals and preopercle covered by thick skin and not visible externally (vs. covered by thin skin and externally visible in other Aspidoras); nuchal plate reduced, covered by thick skin and not visible externally (vs. well developed, covered by thin skin and visible externally); lateral line absent posterior to two small lateral line ossicles (vs. lateral line present on at least first body plate).
Comment » | Category: Armoured Catfishes, Siluriformes
C125
February 8th, 2014 — 1:00pm
Aspidoras spp. are foraging omnivores and will accept most sinking dried foods, as well as small live and frozen varieties such as chironomid larvae (bloodworm), Tubifex, etc.
Feeding a varied diet will ensure the fish are in optimum condition.
Comment » | Category: Armoured Catfishes, Siluriformes
January 2nd, 2014 — 6:47pm
This species has been recorded from the Guaporé, Madeira, Branco, Trombetas, and Urubu river systems within the Amazon river basin, Brazil.
Type locality is ‘Igarapé Jatuarana, 5 kilometers above Samuel, Rio Guaporé, Rondonia, Brazil’.
Comment » | Category: Characiformes, Tetras
Green Line Lizard Tetra
January 2nd, 2014 — 5:07pm
Widely-distributed throughout the Amazon, Orinoco, Essequibo, and Tocantins river systems in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana.
Type locality is ‘Rio Cupai [= Rio Cupari], Rio Tapajós basin, Amazon River drainage, Pará State, Brazil’.
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January 2nd, 2014 — 3:57pm
This species is known from the rio Negro within the Brazilan Amazon basin and upper Río Orinoco system in Venezuela.
Type locality is ‘Rio Adujá, Rio Itú, tributary of middle Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil’.
Comment » | Category: Characiformes, Tetras
January 1st, 2014 — 9:43pm
I. geisleri is typically exported for the aquarium trade alongside the similar-looking congener I. adujai (Géry, 1970) but can be identified by presence (vs. absence in I. adujai) of a black lateral stripe on the body beneath the red stripe, and possession of 20-25 (vs. 28-34) anal-fin rays.
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Sheep Pacu
December 10th, 2013 — 9:05am
Known only from the lower Amazon river basin, and possibly restricted to the Xingu and Tocantins watersheds.
Type locality is ‘ Rio Santa Teresa, a western tributary of upper Rio Tocantins, Goiaz State, Brazil’, referring to what is now known as Goiás state, central Brazil.
1 comment » | Category: Characiformes, Piranhas & Pacus
October 22nd, 2013 — 6:08pm
This species has a somewhat confusing taxonomic history and it remains unclear whether it is conspecific with S. izecksohni (Da Cruz, 1983) or not.
The latter is considered to represent a synonym of S. myersi by Costa (2007), but the majority of authors do not follow the conclusions of that study (see below) and continue to view both as valid.
2 comments » | Category: Aplocheiloid Toothcarps, Cyprinodontiformes
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