Anableps anableps, Largescale foureyes : fisheries, aquarium

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Anableps anableps (Linnaeus, 1758)

Largescale foureyes
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Anablepidae (Four-eyed fishes, onesided livebearers & white-eye) > Anablepinae
Etymology: Anableps: Greek, ana = up + Greek, blepo, blepsis, -eos = glance, sight (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; brackish; demersal; non-migratory. Tropical; 24°C - 28°C (Ref. 1672)

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri

South America: Trinidad and Venezuela to the Amazon delta in Brazil.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 13.0  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 35237); common length : 14.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5217); max. published weight: 400.00 g (Ref. 35237)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Eye divided into aerial and aquatic parts. Fewer than 80 scales in row above lateral line (Ref. 26938).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Mainly found in freshwater, sometimes in brackish parts of lagoons and mangrove coastlines (Ref. 26938). Moves in schools (Ref. 26938). Feeds on insects (Ref. 7020), other invertebrates and diatoms living on the mud, and small fishes (Ref. 35237). Can remain on mud bottom exposed to air during low tide (Ref. 26938). Used in eye research (Ref. 4537). Often travels in schools (Ref. 26938).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Length at birth 4.5 5.2 cm TL (Ref. 35237).

Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Ghedotti, Michael J. | Collaborators

Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez, 1992. Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome. 513 p. Preparado con el financiamento de la Comisión de Comunidades Europeas y de NORAD. (Ref. 5217)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 10 April 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: subsistence fisheries; aquarium: commercial
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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.6250   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00501 (0.00266 - 0.00943), b=3.19 (3.02 - 3.36), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.3   ±0.46 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (20 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Unknown.