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Taxonomy
Acari
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Most mites hide when they can. Some species have very hard exoskeletons to protect them. Others have toxic chemicals in their bodies so they taste bad. These toxic mites are often brightly-colored to warn their predators not to bother. Some plant mites spin webs and hide under them. The webs tangle and slow down small predators.
Known Predators:
- Thysanoptera
- Formicidae
- Carabidae
- Coccinellidae
- Chrysopidae
- Opiliones
- other Acari
- small Araneae
- small Aves
- small Actinopterygii
- small Anura
- small Anura
- small Caudata
- small Squamata
- small Aves
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Bacterial Infections (general). Bacterial diseases
- Bassleer, G. 2003 The new ilustrated guide to fish diseases in ornamental tropical and pond fish. Bassleer Biofish, Stationstraat 130, 2235 Westmeerbeek, Belgium, 1st Edition, 232p. (Ref. 48502)
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demersal; freshwater
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Not Evaluated
- IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006.
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Cteniloricaria maculata is a species of armored catfish native to French Guiana and Suriname where it is found in the Maroni and Corantijn River basins. C. maculata lives in creeks and rapids where the vegetation is poor, the water is clear and well-oxygenated and shallow (less than 1 metre (3.3 ft)), with sandy to rocky substrate. This species grows to a length of 17 centimetres (6.7 in) SL.
References[edit]
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Cteniloricaria maculata" in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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South America: Rio Paraguaçu basin in Bahia State, Brazil.
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Not Evaluated
- IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006.
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Facultative air breather.
- Burgess, W.E. 1989 An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes. A preliminary survey of the Siluriformes. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey (USA). 784 p. (Ref. 6868)
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Pterygoplichthys pardalis is a tropical fish, a Plecostomus in the Armored Catfish family (Loricariidae). It is one of a number of species commonly referred to as the Common Pleco or "leopard Pleco"[citation needed] by aquarists. It will grow to a maximum length of 42.3 centimetres (16.7 in) SL. Pterygoplichthys pardalis is sometimes confused with the Hypostomus plecostomus (another armored catfish known as the "Common Plecostomus").[citation needed] The two species can be distinguished by their number of dorsal rays. P. pardalis has 11–13, while the H. plecostomus has only 5–8 dorsal rays.
P. pardalis is native to the Amazon River Basin of Brazil and Peru. Although normally a bottom-dwelling fish, they have the ability to breathe air from the surface of the water during dry periods and those in which dissolved oxygen is too low.[citation needed]
There is also an albino color variation of this species, usually referred to as an "Albino Plecostomus".[citation needed]
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References[edit]
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South America: Amazon River basin.
- Fisch-Muller, S. 2003 Loricariidae-Ancistrinae (Armored catfishes). p. 373-400. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 36713)
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