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...

Aplocheilichthys katangae in Malawi
Striped topminnow

Go to Species Summary

Aplocheilichthys katangae   (Boulenger, 1912)
Family:	Poeciliidae (Poeciliids) , subfamily: Aplocheilichthyinae			picture (Apkat_m0.gif) by Mertens, P.
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes  (rivulines, killifishes and live bearers)
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
FishBase name:	Striped topminnow
Max. size:	4.5 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 47311)
Environment:	benthopelagic; non-migratory; pH range: 6.5 - 7.19999980926514
Climate:	tropical; 20 - 28°C; 11°S - 28°S
Global Importance:	fisheries: ; aquarium: commercial
Resilience:	High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)
Distribution:	Africa: widely distributed in southern Africa (Ref. 47311). It is found in rivers and lakes of the southern Democratic Republic of Congo, eastern Angola, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia (Ref. 3788, 47311).
Biology:	It is found in schools mainly in the shallow and vegetated part of small rivers, brooks and swamps, and in the shallow parts of lakes (Ref. 47311). Uncommon in floodplains. Feeds on insect larvae, daphnia and other small invertebrates. Serial spawner, lays eggs on vegetation. Useful as a mosquito control agent (Ref. 7248). Not a seasonal killifish. Is difficult to maintain in aquarium (Ref. 27139)
Threatened:	Not Evaluated, see IUCN Red List  , (Ref. 36508)
Dangerous:	harmless
Coordinator:
Main Ref:	Wildekamp, R.H.. 1995. (Ref. 47311)
Update | Add

Malawi country information
Common names:	[ No common name ]		Ref:
Status:	native		Ref:  Tweddle, D., D.S.C. Lewis and N.G. Willoughby, 1979
Salinity:	freshwater
Uses:	no uses
Comments:	Collection sites and abundance: Chikwawa (fairly common), Lower Mwanza River (very common) (Ref. 37112). Found in Lake Malawi and Zambezi drainages in southern Malawi.
Country Information:	www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mi.html
National  Fisheries  Authority:	isp.msu.edu/AfricanStudies/Plea/mfri.htm
Occurrences:	Occurrences    Point map
Main Ref:	Huber, J.H., 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 | 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 | Zoological Record
	Note: use the Back button of your browser to return to FishBase.
	Modified:  Sta. Iglesia, Drina	Entered:  Luna, Susan M.

	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