More info | Plus d'info | Mais info | Fishwatchers: Add your observation | Attach your web site to this page | FishBase

English | Español | Português | Français | Deutsch | Italiano | Nederlands | Chinese      More languages...

Acestrorhynchus falcirostris in Brazil

Go to Species Summary

Acestrorhynchus falcirostris   (Cuvier, 1819)
Family:	Acestrorhynchidae (Smallscale pike characins)			picture (Acfal_u2.jpg) by Hippocampus-Bildarchiv
Order:	Characiformes  (characins)
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
FishBase name:
Max. size:	40.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 2060)
Environment:	benthopelagic; pH range: 5.19999980926514 - 7.19999980926514; dH range: 5 - 18
Climate:	tropical; 24 - 28°C
Global Importance:	fisheries: commercial; aquarium: public aquariums
Resilience:
Distribution:	South America: Amazon and Orinoco River basins and rivers of Guyana.
Diagnosis:	Presence of black fringe on the posterior edge of the operculum, especially on the dorsal half, that creates the appearance of a dark "collar"; scales on lateral line 140-175; and presence of single branched lateral line canals (Ref. 52916).
Biology:	Found in clear and black waters (Ref. 52916). Voracious predator
Threatened:	Not Evaluated, see IUCN Red List  , (Ref. 36508)
Dangerous:	harmless
Coordinator:
Main Ref:	Ortega, H. and R.P. Vari. 1986. (Ref. 6329)
Update | Add

Brazil country information
Common names:	Peixe cachorro, Ueua		Ref:  Menezes, N.A., 2003
Status:	native		Ref:  Menezes, N.A., 2003
Salinity:	freshwater
Importance:	minor commercial		Ref:  Ferreira, E.J.G., J. Zuanon and G.M. dos Santos, 1996
Uses:	no uses
Comments:	Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 38248).
States/Provinces:
States/Provinces Complete?:	No
Country Information:	www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/br.html
Occurrences:	Occurrences    Point map
Main Ref:	Ferreira, E.J.G., J. Zuanon and G.M. dos Santos, 1996
Update

More information:	Countries FAO areas Occurrences Introductions Ecosystem Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Predators Ciguatera Fish loss Common names Synonyms Pictures Sounds Reproduction Maturity Spawning Eggs Egg dev. Larvae Larval dynamics References Growth L-W relationship L-L relationship Length frequencies Recruitment Max. age & size Metabolism Morphology Morphometrics Gill area Brains Vision Collaborators Genetics Allele frequencies Heritability Strains Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Diseases Ecotoxicology Processing Speed Swim. type Stamps
	Note: No data are available if label is black .
Tools:	Biogeographic modelling | Bio-Quiz | E-book | Field guide | Identification keys | Length-frequency Wizard | Life-history tool | Point map |
Internet sources:	BiOSC Point Data | CISTI | Google | GOBASE | GenBank ( genome, nucleotide ) | PubMed | Recipes | Scirus | Tree of Life |   Neodat | Zoological Record
	Note: use the Back button of your browser to return to FishBase.
	Modified:  Torres, Armi G.	Entered:  Cruz, Tess

	Ref.:				Glossary
		(e.g. 9948)				(e.g. cephalopods)
ThisFishForum      Comments & Corrections      Sign our Guest Book
Back to Search

CGNET - US

Page created by: Eli, 20.10.03, last modified by Eli, 26.06.07