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Fish of South America (16 C, 427 P) Pages in category "Aquatic animals of South America" This category contains only the following page.
Freshwater fish of South America (13 C, 80 P) * Prehistoric fish of South America (3 C, 36 P) A. Fish of Argentina (1 C, 45 P) B. Fish of Bolivia (125 P) Fish of ...
Two Telmatobius species occur in the lake, the smaller, more coastal marbled water frog (pictured, at Isla del Sol) and the larger, more deep-water Titicaca water frog. [28] Lake Titicaca is home to more than 530 aquatic species. [29] An artificial fish enclosure at a fish farming site near Copacabana, Bolivia
Brazil has over 3,000 identified species of freshwater fish and over 500 species of amphibians. [8] As elsewhere in South America, the majority of the freshwater fish species are characiforms (tetras and allies) and siluriforms (catfish), but there are also many species from other groups such as the cyprinodontiforms and cichlids.
It is the only monotypic species of its genus, Chironectes. [4] This semiaquatic creature is found in and near freshwater streams and lakes from Mexico through Central and South America to Argentina and is the most aquatic living marsupial (the lutrine opossum also has semiaquatic habits). It is also the only extant marsupial species in which ...
Anacondas or water boas are a group of large boas of the genus Eunectes.They are a semiaquatic group of snakes found in tropical South America.Three to five extant and one extinct species are currently recognized, including one of the largest snakes in the world, E. murinus, the green anaconda.
Aquatic animals of South America (5 C, 1 P) I. Invertebrates of South America (15 C, 1 P) V. Vertebrates of South America (7 C) Pages in category "Fauna of South America"
The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also known as the giant anaconda, emerald anaconda, common anaconda, common water boa, or southern green anaconda, is a semi-aquatic boa species found in South America and the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is the largest, heaviest, and second longest snake in the world, after the reticulated python.