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Acanthopoma annectens in Brazil

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Acanthopoma annectens   Lütken, 1892
Family:	Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes)			picture () by ( not available )
Order:	Siluriformes  (catfish)
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
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Max. size:	12.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; Ref. 39970)
Environment:	demersal
Climate:	tropical
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Distribution:	South America: Upper and middle Amazon River basin.
Biology:	Attacks like a leech and produces wounds all over the fish which it attacks. It spreads a bundle of opercular and inter-opercular spines into the wound and remains there, being very difficult to remove. Invades the 'private parts' of wading or swimming animals but apparently exist in these passages only for a short while, as they quickly die from a lack of oxygen (Ref. 6868)
Threatened:	Not Evaluated, see IUCN Red List  , (Ref. 36508)
Dangerous:	harmless
Coordinator:	Pinna, Mário de
Main Ref:	de Pínna, M.C.C. and W. Wosiacki. 2003. (Ref. 39970)
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Brazil country information
Common names:	[ No common name ]		Ref:
Status:	native		Ref:
Salinity:	freshwater
Regulations:	no regulations		Ref:
Uses:	no uses
Comments:	Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 39970).
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States/Provinces Complete?:	No
Country Information:	www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/br.html
Occurrences:	Occurrences    Point map
Main Ref:	de Pínna, M.C.C. and W. Wosiacki, 2003
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	Entered:  Torres, Armi G.

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