Inca stone cichlid
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Inca stone cichlid ( Tahuantinsuyoa macantzatza ) |
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The Inca stone cichlid ( tahuantinsuyoa macantzatza ) is a freshwater fish from the family of Cichlidae . The epithet was the language of living there Shipibo-Conibo borrowed ( macan = "stone", tzatza = "fish") and plays on its habitat on gravelly and stony river sections in the catchment area of the Río Aguaytía , a tributary of the Ucayali River in Eastern Peru , on. The water at the type locality has a temperature of 26 to 27.6 ° C, a pH value of 6.3 to 7.7, a conductivity of 48 to 52 μS and a total hardness of 2 to 2.5 ° dGH. The species was also found in the Río Negro and the Quebrada Huipoca .
features
The Inca stone cichlid grows to about 12 centimeters, females stay smaller. Both sexes have a similar coloring.
So far only one other species of the genus Tahuantinsuyoa is known. It is the cichlid Tahuantinsuyoa chipi from the catchment area of the Río Pachitea in Peru, also described by Sven Oscar Kullander .
Way of life
In tahuantinsuyoa macantzatza is a larvophilen, biparental mouthbrooders . They spawn on small stones, leaves and pieces of wood, which are turned over and guarded by their parents. After hatching, the young fish are taken in the mouth by the male or female . The parents take turns in mouth brooding. If there is no danger, the fry are let out of the mouth and collected again if there is danger.
attitude
These freshwater ornamental fish are kept in aquariums from 160 liters at a neutral or slightly acidic pH value and a temperature of 24 to 29 degrees Celsius. The young fish can easily be raised with Artemia salina .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quezada García MG, M. Hidalgo del Águila, J. Tarazona Barboza, H. Ortega: Ictiofauna de la cuenca del río Aguaytía, Ucayali, Perú . In: Revista peruana de biología . tape 24 , no. 4 , December 2017, ISSN 1727-9933 , p. 331–342 , doi : 10.15381 / rpb.v24i4.14061 (Spanish, org.pe [PDF; 1.1 MB ; accessed on January 24, 2020]).
literature
- Sven O. Kullander: Cichlid fishes of the Amazon River drainage of Peru. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Research Division, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm 1986.
- Sven O. Kullander: Tahuantinsuyoa chipi, a new species of cichlid fish from the Rio Pachitea drainage in Peru. Cybium, 15, 1, 1991, pp. 3-13.
- Hans A. Baensch , Rüdiger Riehl : Aquariums Atlas. 2nd Edition. Volume 5, Mergus Verlag, Melle 1997, ISBN 3-882-44029-5 , p. 956.
- R. Stawikowski, U. Werner: The cichlids of America. Volume 1, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-800-17270-4 .
Web links
- Inca stone cichlid on Fishbase.org (English)
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System Tahuantinsuyoa macantzatza
- Cichlid-Forum.com Tahuantinsuyoa macantzatza , the Inca Stone Fish