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Macrognathus siamensis, the peacock eel or spotfin spiny eel, is a spiny eel found in freshwater habitats throughout Southeast Asia. They are commercially important as food and aquarium fish. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Macrognathus is a genus of eel-like fish of the family Mastacembelidae of the order Synbranchiformes. These fish are distributed throughout most of South and Southeast Asia . [ 1 ] Macrognathus species feed on small aquatic insect larvae as well as oligochaetes .
Fire eel: Mastacembelus erythrotaenia: 100 cm (39 in) Tire track eel: Mastacembelus armatus: 90 cm (35 in) Peacock eel: Macrognathus siamensis: 30 cm (12 in) They require clean water and are vulnerable to parasites, fungal diseases, and the copper-based drugs used to treat these conditions. [79] 73-82 °F (23-28 °C) [80] 6.0-8.0 [80] Zebra ...
During the Covid lockdown in 2020, Tokyo’s Sumida Aquarium asked for volunteers to FaceTime its 300 spotted garden eels, who had become shy without the presence of visitors, ...
Macrognathus pancalus, the barred spiny eel or Indian spiny eel, or পাঁকাল in bengali is a small freshwater fish in southern Asia. It usually is found in slow and shallow rivers. It usually is found in slow and shallow rivers.
Aplatophis chauliodus, the fangtooth snake-eel, also known as the tusky eel in Cuba and the United States, [1] is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. [2] It was described by James Erwin Böhlke in 1956. [3] It is a marine, tropical eel known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and French Guiana.
The Heterenchelyidae or mud eels are a small family of eels native to the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and eastern Pacific. Heterenchelyids are bottom-dwelling fish adapted to burrowing into soft mud. [1] They have large mouths and no pectoral fins, and range from 32 to 149 cm (13 to 59 in) in length. Currently, eight species in two genera are ...
Cichla ocellaris, sometimes known as the butterfly peacock bass ("peacock bass" is also used for some of its relatives), is a very large species of cichlid from South America, and a prized game fish. It reaches 74 cm (29 in) in length. [3] It is native to the Marowijne and Essequibo drainages in the Guianas, and the Branco River in Brazil.