Epiplatys sexfasciatus Gill, 1863 Recherche rapide

Attributs

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  • Aquariology : difficult to maintain in aquarium .
  • Behaviour / ethology : Ewing, 1975 | Scheel, 1974 h .
  • Biology : Loiselle, 1970 b | Radda, 1971 b | Radda 1971 d | Scheel, 1974 h .
  • Chromosomes : Klinkhardt et al., 1995 | Vasil'ev, 1980 .
  • Colour pattern : van der Zee et al., 2007b .
  • Common names : Seksstribet panchax (Danish), Six-barred epiplatys / Sixbar panchax / Toothed carp (English), Dzorkpletoe / Tagbanyae (Ewe: Ghana), Mbonha (Fang: Gabon), Isovaanija (Finnish), Epiplatys à 6 rayons (French), Roter Sechsbandhechtling / Sechsbandhechtling (German), Ogoin (Ijo: Nigeria), Szczupienczyk szesciopregi (Polish), Schuchka shapera shestipolosaya (Russian) .
  • Current distribution known : a Lower Guinea endemic, found in the lower Ogowe River drainage system and Estuaria de Gabon with the inflowing lower Komo River system in northeastern Gabon and the adjacent southern Equatorial Guinea. Also Cameroon, and Ghana to Benin .
  • Ecology : Loiselle, 1970 b | not a seasonal killifish | Radda, 1971 b | Radda 1971 d | Scheel, 1974 h .
  • Food habits : feeds on worms, crustaceans and insects .
  • Food habits_references : Labhart & Ziswiler, 1979 .
  • Genetics : Aarn & Shepherd, 2001 | Gyldenholm & Scheel, 1971 | Post, 1965 | Scheel, 1966 c | Scheel, 1968 a | Scheel, 1972 c | Scheel, 1974 h .
  • Habitat / home range : occurs in calm and weedy parts of swamps, pools, brooks, streams and small rivers .
  • Hybridization : Scheel, 1968 a .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Parenti, 1981 | Poernomo, 1967 .
  • Reproduction : near-to-surface spawner; 2 weeks incubation; eggs diameter: 1.4 mm (Huber, Killi-Data online: www.killi-data.org) .
  • Reproduction_references : Böhm, 1973 c | Häfelin, 1972 a | Scheel, 1962 b | Schwabe, 1979 .
  • Scales : Clausen, 1967 | Scheel, 1966 c | Scheel, 1968 a | Whitehead, 1962 b .
  • Size : 100 mm TL .
  • Types :
    • Epiplatys sexfasciatus Gill, 1863 b: 136. Type locality: "Gabon river", present Ogowe river, Gabon (about 00°52'S-10°22'E). Syntypes ANSP n° 7129-7141.