Acaronia

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Acaronia
Trap mouth (Acaronia nassa)

Trap mouth ( Acaronia nassa )

Systematics
Ovalentaria
Order : Cichliformes
Family : Cichlids (Cichlidae)
Subfamily : Cichlinae
Tribe : Cichlasomatini
Genre : Acaronia
Scientific name
Acaronia
Myers , 1940

Acaronia (after "Acará", a Tupí-Guaraní expression for cichlids) is a genus of South American cichlids consisting of two species.

distribution

The genus occurs in the Amazon basin in Peru , Brazil and Bolivia , in the Rio Negro , in the Rio Branco , Brazo Casiquiare , Río Caura , in the Orinoco region in Colombia and Venezuela , in the Essequibo in Guyana , in the Oyapock on the border between Brazil and French Guyana and in the Brazilian state of Amapá .

features

Acaronia species become 25 to just over twelve centimeters long. Their body resembles that of the cichlid genus Aequidens , is flattened on the sides, high back and elongated, oval in shape. The eyes are strikingly large, the mouth is terminal and deeply split, with a very large, protruding premaxillary . The soft radiating parts of the dorsal and anal fin are drawn out and pointed, the caudal fin is fan-shaped with rounded tips.

Way of life

Acaronia species feed on insect larvae, crustaceans, and small fish. They are territorial and open brooders .

species

literature

  • Günther Sterba : The world's freshwater fish. 2nd Edition. Urania, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-332-00109-4 .
  • Claus Schaefer: Acaronia. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , p. 16.

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