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Characidium zebra Eigenmann 1909
Description
Characidium zebra Eigenmann, 1909
(Fig. 6)
FIRST RECORD FOR THE MITARAKA. — This study.
OCCURENCES. — S3, S8, S9, S11.
SPECIMEN IN COLLECTION. — None.
DISTRIBUTION IN FRENCH GUIANA. — Widespread.
ECOLOGY. — Observed on sandy bottoms and moderate to high current velocities in both Alama mainstream and tributaries. Lies immobile head directed upstream, waiting for drifting food. Captured using rotenone and observed in underwater inventories.
SPECIES CODE. — CZEB.
Notes
Published as part of Sébastien Brosse, Fréderic Melki & Régis Vigouroux, 2019, Fishes of the Mitaraka Mountains (French Guiana), pp. 131-151 in Zoosystema 41 (8) on page 136, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/2639414
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Characidae
- Genus
- Characidium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Characiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Eigenmann
- Species
- zebra
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Characidium zebra Eigenmann, 1909 sec. Brosse, Melki & Vigouroux, 2019