Glossary
biotope
An area of uniform environmental conditions and species distribution containing a specific assemblage of plants and animals. Similar to 'habitat' but refers to a biological community rather than a single species or population.
Used in 313 species profiles
- Acarichthys heckelii
- Aequidens tetramerus
- Agamyxis pectinifrons
- Altolamprologus calvus
- Amblydoras nauticus
- Ancistrus ranunculus
- Ancistrus sp.
- Ancistrus triradiatus
- Andinoacara sp. 'Orinoco'
- Anostomus anostomus
- Anostomus ternetzi
- Apistogramma cinilabra
- Apistogramma pantalone
- Astyanax bimaculatus
- Badis assamensis
- Badis blosyrus
- Badis corycaeus
- Badis ferrarisi
- Badis juergenschmidti
- Badis khwae
- Badis kyar
- Badis ruber
- Badis siamensis
- Badis sp. 'Buxar'
- Badis tuivaiei
- Barbodes aurotaeniatus
- Barbodes banksi
- Barbodes binotatus
- Barbodes semifasciolatus
- Barboides gracilis
- 'Barbus' candens
- 'Barbus' fasciolatus
- 'Barbus' holotaenia
- 'Barbus' hulstaerti
- 'Barbus' jae
- 'Barbus' sublineatus
- Belontia hasselti
- Betta akarensis
- Betta chloropharynx
- Betta hipposideros
- Betta renata
- Betta simorum
- Betta tussyae
- Biotodoma wavrini
- Boraras brigittae
- Boraras maculatus
- Boraras merah
- Botia kubotai
- Brevibora dorsiocellata
- Chaetostoma sp.
- Chalceus erythrurus
- Chalceus macrolepidotus
- Charax condei
- Chilodus punctatus
- Cleithracara maronii
- Corydoras leucomelas
- Corydoras melanistius
- Corydoras melanotaenia
- Corydoras napoensis
- Corydoras narcissus
- Corydoras nattereri
- Corydoras nijsseni
- Corydoras panda
- Corydoras pantanalensis
- Corydoras polystictus
- Corydoras pygmaeus
- Corydoras robustus
- Corydoras schwartzi
- Corydoras semiaquilis
- Corydoras similis
- Corydoras sodalis
- Corydoras sterbai
- Corydoras trilineatus
- Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum stercusmuscarum
- Cyclocheilichthys apogon
- Cyclocheilichthys janthochir
- Dekeyseria brachyura
- Dermogenys pusilla
- Desmopuntius foerschi
- Dianema longibarbis
- Dianema urostriatum
- Distichodus affinis
- Eirmotus insignis
- Eirmotus octozona
- Erethistes maesotensis
- Eretmodus cyanostictus
- Exodon paradoxus
- Farlowella vittata
- Gasteropelecus levis
- Gasteropelecus sternicla
- 'Geophagus' brasiliensis
- Geophagus camopiensis
- Geophagus winemilleri
- Gymnogeophagus balzanii
- Haludaria fasciata
- Hara jerdoni
- Hasemania nana
- Hemiancistrus guahiborum
- Hemiancistrus sp.
- Hemichromis elongatus
- Hemigrammus barrigonae
- Hemigrammus belottii
- Hemigrammus bleheri
- Hemigrammus boesemani
- Hemigrammus cupreus
- Hemigrammus erythrozonus
- Hemigrammus hyanuary
- Hemigrammus levis
- Hemigrammus ocellifer
- Hemigrammus pulcher
- Hemigrammus rhodostomus
- Hemigrammus rodwayi
- Hemigrammus stictus
- Hemigrammus ulreyi
- Hemigrammus unilineatus
- Hemigrammus vorderwinkleri
- Hemiodus argenteus
- Hemiodus atranalis
- Hemiodus gracilis
- Hemiodus orthonops
- Hemiodus ternetzi
- Hemiodus unimaculatus
- Heros efasciatus
- Heros notatus
- Hyalobagrus flavus
- Hypancistrus zebra
- Hyphessobrycon anisitsi
- Hyphessobrycon bentosi
- Hyphessobrycon eques
- Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma
- Hyphessobrycon flammeus
- Hyphessobrycon melanostichos
- Hyphessobrycon metae
- Hyphessobrycon rosaceus
- Hyphessobrycon socolofi
- Hyphessobrycon sweglesi
- Hypostomus mutucae
- Hypselecara coryphaenoides
- Ilyodon furcidens
- Inpaichthys kerri
- Julidochromis dickfeldi
- Julidochromis marlieri
- Julidochromis ornatus
- Julidochromis regani
- Knodus borki
- Kottelatia brittani
- Labidochromis caeruleus
- Lamontichthys llanero
- Lasiancistrus tentaculatus
- Lepidosiren paradoxa
- Leporacanthicus galaxias
- Leporacanthicus heterodon
- Leporacanthicus joselimai
- Leporacanthicus triactis
- Leptodoras linnelli
- Lophiobagrus cyclurus
- Luciocephalus pulcher
- Macrognathus zebrinus
- Melanotaenia affinis
- Melanotaenia australis
- Melanotaenia irianjaya
- Melanotaenia maccullochi
- Melanotaenia splendida inornata
- Melanotaenia splendida splendida
- Melanotaenia trifasciata
- Mesonoemacheilus guentheri
- Mesonoemacheilus herrei
- Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui
- Mesonoemacheilus triangularis
- Mimagoniates microlepis
- Moenkhausia ceros
- Moenkhausia oligolepis
- Moenkhausia pittieri
- Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae
- Mogurnda mogurnda
- Nannostomus anduzei
- 'Nemacheilus' anguilla
- Nemacheilus binotatus
- 'Nemacheilus' corica
- Nemacheilus longistriatus
- Nemacheilus masyae
- Nemacheilus ornatus
- Nemacheilus pallidus
- Nemacheilus platiceps
- Nemacheilus saravacensis
- Nemacheilus selangoricus
- Nemacheilus spiniferus
- Nemachilichthys rueppelli
- Neolamprologus fasciatus
- Neolamprologus helianthus
- Neolamprologus marunguensis
- Neolamprologus olivaceous
- Neolamprologus pulcher
- Neolamprologus savoryi
- Ompok bimaculatus
- Oxydoras niger
- Oxyeleotris marmorata
- Paracanthocobitis mooreh
- Paracanthocobitis zonalternans
- Parachromis managuensis
- Parachromis motaguensis
- Parambassis pulcinella
- Paraphanius mento
- Pethia didi
- Pethia padamya
- Pethia punctata
- Pethia shalynius
- Pethia stoliczkana
- Pethia tiantian
- Pethia ticto
- Petitella georgiae
- Phenacogrammus interruptus
- Poecilia reticulata
- Potamotrygon castexi
- Potamotrygon falkneri
- Potamotrygon henlei
- Potamotrygon hystrix
- Potamotrygon leopoldi
- Potamotrygon motoro
- Potamotrygon orbignyi
- Potamotrygon schroederi
- Potamotrygon scobina
- Potamotrygon sp. "itaituba"
- Potamotrygon sp. "pearl"
- Pristella maxillaris
- Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi
- Pseudocrenilabrus philander
- Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum
- Pungu maclareni
- Puntigrus tetrazona
- Puntius sahyadriensis
- 'Puntius' snyderi
- Puntius vittatus
- Rasbora cephalotaenia
- Rasbora cf. dandia
- Rasbora einthovenii
- Rasbora kalochroma
- Rasbora kottelati
- Rasbora sarawakensis
- Rasbosoma spilocerca
- Rineloricaria eigenmanni
- Rineloricaria fallax
- Rineloricaria lanceolata
- Rineloricaria morrowi
- Rineloricaria parva
- Rineloricaria sp.
- Sandelia bainsii
- Sandelia capensis
- Schistura alticrista
- Schistura balteata
- Schistura cf. balteata
- Schistura denisonii
- Schistura devdevi
- Schistura geisleri
- Schistura hypsiura
- Schistura kodaguensis
- Schistura kohchangensis
- Schistura maepaiensis
- Schistura nicholsi
- Schistura polytaenia
- Schistura pridii
- Schistura robertsi
- Schistura savona
- Schistura sp. 1
- Schistura spilota
- Schistura vinciguerrae
- Schistura yingjiangensis
- Semaprochilodus insignis
- Semaprochilodus taeniurus
- Serpenticobitis octozona
- Serpenticobitis zonata
- Serrasalmus altuvei
- Serrasalmus elongatus
- Serrasalmus manueli
- Serrasalmus rhombeus
- Stiphodon alcedo
- Stiphodon atratus
- Stiphodon atropurpureus
- Stiphodon birdsong
- Stiphodon pelewensis
- Stiphodon percnopterygionus
- Stiphodon rutilaureus
- Stiphodon semoni
- Stiphodon surrufus
- Stomatepia pindu
- Sundadanio axelrodi
- Syncrossus hymenophysa
- Synodontis acanthomias
- Synodontis albolineata
- Synodontis aterrima
- Synodontis dhonti
- Synodontis euptera
- Synodontis flavitaeniata
- Synodontis granulosa
- Synodontis greshoffi
- Synodontis multipunctata
- Synodontis njassae
- Synodontis notata
- Synodontis petricola
- Synodontis polli
- Telmatochromis vittatus
- Thayeria boehlkei
- Thayeria ifati
- Thayeria obliqua
- Thoracocharax stellatus
- Thorichthys meeki
- Tilapia guinasana
- Toxotes chatareus
- Toxotes jaculatrix
- Trachydoras steindachneri
- Trichopodus pectoralis
- Trigonopoma pauciperforatum
- Xenomystus nigri