Rio Negro Talking Catfish
Talking catfish rio negro reg.
Rio negro talking catfish. Designed around the habitat of the poster child of the rio negro s aquarium fish the cardinal tetra the tank would not be complete without a small school of said fish. In the wild they are a cryptic species which tends to inhabit leaf litter and driftwood piles in warm acidic water. L136 and panaque sp.
We starded our session to barcelos a little town near manaus. Phractocephalus hemiliopterus lata loricaria catfish lrg. A group of seven wild collected fish formed the centerpiece of the aquarium and replicated how the fish is most often encountered in smaller groups as opposed to.
Asterophysus batrachus the gulper catfish or ogre catfish is a species of catfish order siluriformes of the family auchenipteridae it is native to the rio negro and orinoco basins in brazil colombia and venezuela where mostly found in slow moving waters with many submerged structures. Amblydoras nauticus fisher s wood catfish reg. Big piraiba caught i the amazon river rio negro in a wild session in brasil.
Revista brasileira de zoologia revta bras. Lda001 l169 to name but a few are found as well as ancistrus dolichopterus syntop to l088. Zoo s paulo 3 1.
For this reason it is always a possibility with new imports of l088 that. A hardy adaptable and uncommon catfish they make an. Images are copyright and may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder.
Facebook page opens in new window instagram page opens in new window. A medium sized doradid cat found throughout the rio negro and other middle amazonian tributaries the talking catfish is named for its ability to make a croaking or squeaking sound by rapidly moving their pectoral fins. It is currently the only recognized species of the genus asterophysus but a specimen that possibly.
33 41 28 vi l985 on the feeding ecology of the catfish hypophthalmus fimbriatus ln the blackwater rio negro of the amazon basin.