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Cathorops belizensis, the Belize sea catfish, is a species of sea catfish. It is found in mangrove channels in Belize City . Maximum recorded body length is 32 cm. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Belize is home to many tropical snake species, including both venomous and nonvenomous snakes. The families found in Belize consist of Colubridae, Boidae, Elapidae and Viperidae, of which the latter two families are highly venomous and may present a potential health hazard to humans if provoked. Out of 1500 species of colubrids known, 60 of ...
The Belize Barrier Reef is a 300-kilometre (190 mi) long section of the 900-kilometre (560 mi) Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, which is continuous from Cancún on the north-eastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula through the Riviera Maya and down to Honduras, making it the second largest coral reef system in the world after the Great Barrier ...
When originally described by French ichthyologist Marie Firmin Bocourt in 1868, A. belizianus was named Tetragonopterus belizianus. [1] By 1899, German-American ichthyologist Carl H. Eigenmann had synonymized it under congener Astyanax aeneus; [2] at the time, A. aeneus was considered a subspecies of Astyanax fasciatus, a species that has since been renamed Psalidodon fasciatus.
The whitelined toadfish (Sanopus greenfieldorum) is a species of fish in the family Batrachoididae.It is endemic to Belize. [1] The specific name honours David W. Greenfield and Teresa Arambula Greenfield, who when they collected type specimen thought that it might belong to an undescribed species and so sent it to Bruce Baden Collette to be described.
Poecilia kykesis ranges from the Usumacinta River drainage and Lake Petén Itzá in Guatemala to Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula in southeastern Mexico. [3] [2] It was reported as an introduced species in the U.S. state of Florida in 1971, probably having escaped from aquaculture or having been released from an aquarium.
The Sierra Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus brasiliensis) is a species of fish in the family Scombridae. Specimens have been recorded at up to 125 cm in length, and weighing up to 6.71 kg. It is found in the western Atlantic, along the Caribbean and Atlantic coasts of Central and South America from Belize to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.