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’.
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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’.
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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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Emperor Snakehead
January 1st, 2014 — 5:31pm
This species is often confused with the nominal congeners C. marulius (Hamilton, 1822) and C. melanoptera (Bleeker, 1855) with all three presenting taxonomic problems.
For example, C. marulioides exhibits a number of variations in colour pattern depending on collection locality with the most common possessing a brownish base colour with a series of dark, chevron-like markings along each flank and some scales margined posteriorly in white.
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Blotched Snakehead
January 1st, 2014 — 4:15pm
This species is frequently confused with C. argus but can be distinguished by the following characters: dorsal-fin rays 38-45 (vs. 47-50 in C. argus); anal fin rays 26-29 (vs. 31-36); lateral line scales 50-56 (vs. 60-66); 2-3 rounded blotches on caudal peduncle (vs. no blotches on caudal peduncle).
It is widely-distributed in Pacific coastal drainages of southeastern China (e.g. the Yangtze, Minjiang, Hangjiang River, and Pearl (Nanjiu…
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Bullseye Snakehead
January 1st, 2014 — 3:15pm
This species is also referred to as ‘giant’, ‘great’, ‘cobra’, or ‘Indian’ snakehead.
Although currently-considered to be distributed throughout much of southern Asia it is widely-accepted to represent a complex of related species in need of additional research.
A number of geographical variants exhibiting diffe…
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January 1st, 2014 — 3:12pm
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Bolt Catfish
December 10th, 2013 — 9:31am
An obligate predator feeding on other fishes in nature, but quality dried foods are normally accepted in captivity.
It should also be offered meaty fare such as strips of white fish, live earthworms, shrimp, etc., for optimum health.
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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.
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