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Pages in category "Fish of the Amazon basin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 368 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Amazon River Basin (The southern Guianas, not marked on this map, are a part of the basin.) The mouth of the Amazon River. The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South ...
Fish of the Amazon basin (368 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Amazon" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 250 total.
A recent study of fishing communities in the state of Amazonas, Brazil found the giant arapaima (air-ah-pie-ma) is already extinct in some parts of the Amazon basin.
Brachyplatystoma are important food fish. In the Amazon Basin, thousands of metric tons of fish from this genus are caught for both local consumption as well as exportation. [3] These fish are usually caught with the use of longlines or drift nets. [2] [6] They are also captured by harpoon as well as ropes with large fish hooks at the end. [13]
Indeed, a 2014 study found that the fish were depleted or overexploited at 93% of the sites examined and well-managed or unfished in only 7%; the fish appeared to be extirpated in 19% of these sites. [31] [32] The status of the arapaima population in the Amazon River Basin is unknown, hence it is listed on the IUCN red list as data deficient.
Micromyzon akamai appears to have a patchy distribution. It has been found in the Amazon River basin as well as the lower Tocantins River. [2]Micromyzon akamai inhabits channels of the white-water rivers on sandy substrates at a depth of about 5–20 metres (16–66 ft).
Pterophyllum is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae known to most aquarists as angelfish.All Pterophyllum species originate from the Amazon Basin, Orinoco Basin and various rivers in the Guiana Shield in tropical South America.