Florida Parrot
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Florida Parrot, male |
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| Jordanella | ||||||||||||
| Goode & Bean , 1879 | ||||||||||||
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| Jordanella floridae | ||||||||||||
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The flagfish ( Jordanella floridae ) is a small freshwater fish in Florida is home and inhabited ponds, ditches and slow-flowing streams. The genus was named after the American zoologist , ichthyologist and botanist David Starr Jordan , the species epithet refers to the area of distribution. The species was first introduced to Germany in 1914 and is kept here as an aquarium fish .
features
The Florida Parrot is a stocky, relatively high-backed fish. The body height is one third of the body length. The trunk is flattened laterally, the tail fin stalk is very high. Females reach a maximum length of 6 cm and are fuller, while males remain 4.5 cm long. The unpaired fins are rounded, the caudal fin rounded. The dorsal fin, which begins in the middle between the eyes and the base of the caudal fin, is longer than the anal fin. The mouth is on top and has small three-pointed teeth. The scales are big. The fish are brownish to greenish in color. The back is darker, the belly almost whitish. The individual scales have iridescent bluish to light yellow pits. In the males, red dots form 9 to 10 longitudinal lines along the lower edges of the scales. There is an indicated dark spot on the flanks.
- Fin formula : dorsal 16–18, anal 11–14.
- Scale formula : mLR 24–27.
Way of life
The Florida Parrot lives ground-oriented in vegetation-rich, stagnant and slowly flowing waters, also in brackish water. It feeds on algae and plants in particular, as well as worms, small crustaceans and insects. Males are territory-forming. During courtship, the male drives very hard and then does a simple form of brood care. The 200 to 300 eggs deposited by the female in a hollow are guarded and fanned by the male. The males' brood care instinct usually disappears after a day. Depending on the water temperature, the fry hatch after 5 to 10 days.
literature
- Hans A. Baensch , Rüdiger Riehl : Aquariums Atlas, Volume 1 . Mergus Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-88244-101-1 .
- Günther Sterba (Ed.), Gert Brückner: Encyclopedia of Aquaristics and Special Ichthyology. Neumann-Neudamm, Melsungen u. a. 1978, ISBN 3-7888-0252-9 .
- Günther Sterba: The world's freshwater fish. 2nd Edition. Urania, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-332-00109-4 .
- Werner Neumann: Jordanella floridae Goode & Bean, 1879. Florida Parrot, American Flag Killi. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. 2 volumes. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , p. 528.
Web links
- Florida Parrot on Fishbase.org (English)