Striped pike

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Striped pike
Striped pike (gold-colored cultivated form)

Striped pike (gold-colored cultivated form)

Systematics
Superordinate : Earfish relatives (Atherinomorphae)
Order : Toothpies (Cyprinodontiformes)
Subordination : Aplocheiloidei
Family : Aplocheilidae
Genre : Aplocheilus
Type : Striped pike
Scientific name
Aplocheilus lineatus
( Valenciennes , 1846)

The striped pike ( Aplocheilus lineatus ) is a small freshwater fish that is native to India in pools, ditches and on flooded rice fields. The type material used for the first description comes from the area around Mumbai . The species was first introduced to Germany in 1909 and is kept here as an aquarium fish .

features

Drawing of the wild form from Fauna of British India by British ichthyologist Francis Day

The striped pike is a pike-shaped stretched surface fish with an upper, wide mouth and large eyes. Males reach a maximum length of 10 cm, making them the largest representatives of the genus Aplocheilus . Females stay smaller with a length of 6 to 7 cm. The striped pike is usually light olive in color, the back is green-brown, the belly whitish. The sides of the body have longitudinal rows of golden-greenish shiny scales. Six to eight dark cross bars on the abdomen led to the epithet lineatus (Latin for “lined”). They start just before the anal fin below the midline and get longer and longer towards the back. The last one encompasses the entire base of the caudal fin. The fins are tinted yellow or orange or transparent and often lined with red. Like all Aplocheilus species, the striped pike has a silvery vertex on its head.

Way of life

Striped pike move little, but lie in wait for prey, mostly under floating plants. They feed mainly on approach food (insects that have fallen on the surface of the water). The fish are oviparous and spawn in fine-feathered plants.

literature

  • Hans A. Baensch , Rüdiger Riehl : Aquariums Atlas, Volume 1 . Mergus Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-88244-101-1 .
  • Werner Neumann: The Hechtlinge. A. Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg, 1983, ISSN  0138-1423 .
  • 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: Aplocheilus lineatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846). In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. 2 volumes. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , Volume 1, p. 84.

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