Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Creole, French:
Krobi, Krobié, Paya
Common Names in Creoles and Pidgins, French:
Krobié, Paya
Common Names in English:
Bigeye cichlid, Peruvian dwarf cichlid
Common Names in Finnish:
Rys, Rysäkirjoahven
Common Names in French:
Cichlid, Cichlidé à grands yeux
Common Names in German:
Reusenmaulbuntbarsch
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
大眼丽鱼, 大眼麗魚
Common Names in Oyampi:
Akalayouloupoko
Common Names in S. American Indian:
Akalayouloupoko
Description
Physical Description
Size/Age/Growth
Maximum length 25 cm TL [1]. Males are bigger than females.
Habitat
Collected from a small creek , quite sunny, with amber-colored water, slow current , muddy substrate and approximately 1 m in depth.
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 584 meters (0 to 1,916 feet).[2]
Ecology: Found together with Pterophyllum scalare, Heros efasciatus, Hypselecara temporalis, and Mesonauta guyanae[3].
Biology
Diet
Feeds on shrimps, insect larvae of Odonata, Coleoptera and Hemiptera, as well as on fishes like cyprinodonts, characids.
Reproduction
Reproduction occurs during the rainy season .
Behavior
Solitary.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
()
- Order:
Perciformes
()
-
- Order:
Perciformes
(
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Acara cognatus Heckel • Acara nassa • Acara nassa Heckel • Acara nassa Heckel, 1840 • Acara unicolor Heckel • Acaronia nassa • Apistogramma ambloplitoides Fowler • Centrarchus rostratus Jardine
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 09-Feb-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Acaronia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. nassa (Peruvian Dwarf Cichlid)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 134.
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 652, p. 676.
- Fishes of western South America. I. The intercordilleran and Amazonian lowlands of Peru. II. The high pampas of Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile. With a revision of the Peruvian Gymnotidae and of the genus Orestias [by] Carl H. Eigenmann. .. [and] William Ray Allen. .. Lexington, Ky., The University of Kentucky, 1942. url p. 388.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 170.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 14, 2012.
- FishBase 2006.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
- Kullander, Sven O. (from FishBase).
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
- Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 119189
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-28424
- Fishbase Species ID: 12260
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 649020
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 101223
Footnotes
- Baensch, H.A. and R. Riehl (1985). Aquarien atlas. Band 2. Mergus, Verlag für Natur- und Heimtierkunde GmbH, Melle, Germany. 1216 p. [back]
- Mean = 91.350 meters (299.705 feet), Standard Deviation = 124.760 based on 79 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- Keith, P., O.-Y. Le Bail and P. Planquette (2000). Atlas des poissons d'eau douce de Guyane (tome 2, fascicule I). Publications scientifiques du M.N.H.N, Paris, 286 p. [back]
