Classification / Names
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Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range
पारिस्थितिकी
; स्वच्छ जल, अलवण जल ड़िमरसल. Tropical
Central America: Caribbean and Pacific drainages of southern Mexico and Central America.
Length at first maturity / आकार / वज़न / Age
परिपक्व अवधि: Lm 45.5, range 50 - 60 cm
Max length : 125 cm TL पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (Ref. 36722); अधिकतम प्रकाशित वज़न: 2.9 kg (Ref. 40637)
Short description
पहचान कुंजी | आकृति विज्ञान | मौरफोमैटरिक्स
Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Inhabit backwaters and slow moving sections of rivers and lakes. Often found in the warm stagnant waters of the lowland. Visible on the surface and resemble floating logs. Enter shallow lakes at the beginning of the dry season to spawn and known to reproduce also in June and July when rains are heaviest and rivers flood their banks providing an ideal spawning habitat of flooded vegetation. Large schools form to cast thousands of eggs in a gelatinous mass in the shallow waters. The adults return again to the river leaving the fry amongst the flooded vegetation (Ref. 36880). The eggs are poisonous to eat (Ref. 4537).
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2003. Lepisosteidae (Gars). p. 29. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 36722)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
Threat to humans
Poisonous to eat (Ref. 4537)
Human uses
साधन
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इंटरनेट स्रोत
Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (संदर्भ
82804): PD
50 = 0.6426 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00229 (0.00091 - 0.00578), b=3.19 (2.97 - 3.41), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (संदर्भ
69278): 4.2 ±0.73 se; based on food items.
लौटाव (संदर्भ
120179): बहुत नीचे, न्यूनतम जनसंख्या दुगनी समय अवलागत 14 महीने। (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): High to very high vulnerability (75 of 100).
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