Micronema bleekeri
Bleeker's Sheatfish
An irregular import, this species is often confused with some of its congeners. It makes an interesting addition to a community of larger fish.
An irregular import, this species is often confused with some of its congeners. It makes an interesting addition to a community of larger fish.
P. apogon has formerly been placed within the genera Kryptopterus, Micronema (Rainboth, 1996) and more recently Phalacronotus (Ferraris, 2007) and is an important food fish across much of its native range.
It’s very similar to P. micronema but can be told apart by its longer head (HL fits 4.6± 5.3 times in…
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This species has been available in the trade for decades during which time it’s been widely misidentified as the valid congeners K. bicirrhis or, more recently, K. minor.
Its identity was not resolved until early 2013 meaning you will find it under one of these two names in the majority of literature published prior to that date.
Other trade names include ‘Asia…
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Has been recorded in fast-flowing environments but most commonly associated with peat swamp forests and associated blackwater streams.
Many such habitats have suffered degradation of some kind but in unaltered cases the dense canopy of branches above means very little light penetrates the surface of such environments, and riparian vegetation also tends to grow thickly.
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Known from the Malay Peninsula and Singapore plus Greater Sunda Islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java in Indonesia with populati0ns from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam formerly considered as conspecific now referred to K. geminus (Ng, 2003).
Type locality is given as ‘Bandjarmassing’ which corresponds to a town now more commonly referred to as ‘Banjarmasin’ in South Kalimantan (Kalimantan Selatan) province, Indonesia (Borneo).
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Endemic to the Rakhine Yoma/Arakan mountains in Rakhine state, western Myanmar; this range forms a natural barrier which cuts the state off from the remainder of the country. It was originally collected from a handful of streams and rivers of the western, interior, slopes of which the type specimens originated from the Kananmae Chaung, a coastal rivulet draining into the Bay of Bengal (Kullander and Fa…
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Although S. leichardtii superficially resembles its Asian cousins, it is not considered as desirable an aquarium inhabitant, nor is it classed as being at risk in nature. It can be easily distinguished from the asian species by its much smaller scale size, greater lateral scale count (32-35 as opposed to 21-25 in the asian aros) and duller patterning. It differs from its Australian relative S. jardinii by its spotted scales, forward-pointing barbels, lack of sloping head and unpatterned gill cov…
Although S. jardinii superficially resembles its Asian cousins, it is not considered as desirable an aquarium inhabitant, nor is it classed as being at risk in nature. It can be easily distinguished from the asian species by its much smaller scale size, greater lateral scale count (32-35 as opposed to 21-25 in the asian aros) and duller patterning. It differs from its Australian relative S. leichardtii by its more sloping head, downward-pointing barbels and patterned gill covers. The base colour…
This species is distinguished from its Australian congeners S. jardinii and S. leichardti by possessing a lower number of lateral line scales (21-26 vs 32-36).
It occurs naturally in a number of colour forms of which three were elevated to distinct species status in 2003, but the current majority view is that all represent S. formosus pending a detailed review. Kottelat (2013) mentions that the red form may…
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A bizarre and very recent addition to the genus, O. exodon is infrequently imported to the hobby, but has been seen occasionally. It has specially adapted mouthparts whereby it has greatly enlarged teeth. An extra set of teeth can also be seen growing in concentric bands on the outer lips! These are used in nature to literally 'pick' fruit from overhanging branches, with the fish often leaping from the water to grab a particularly juicy fig or other fruit. When the mouth of the fish is…
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