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Astronotus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831)

Oscar
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Brazil country information

Common names: Acará-açu, Acará-grande, Acaraú-açu
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: scarce (very unlikely) | Ref: Silvano, R.A.M. and A. Begossi, 2001
Importance: commercial | Ref: Boujard, T., M. Pascal, F.J. Meunier and P.-Y. Le Bail, 1997
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36377). Recorded in Piracicaba river (Ref. 50076). Considered economically important by the Brazilians who have acclimated the originally Amazonian stocks to the conditions of the province in the northeast (Ref. 27188). Established populations introduced in the states of Bahia, Ceará, Espirito Santo, Maranhão, and Piauí (Ref. 126783).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Silvano, R.A.M. and A. Begossi, 2001
National Database:

Common names from other countries

分類 / Names 俗名 | 同種異名 | Catalog of Fishes(, ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei > Cichliformes (Cichlids, convict blennies) 鱸形目 (Cichlids, convict blennies) > Cichlidae (Cichlids) 慈鯛科魚類 (Cichlids) > Astronotinae
Etymology: Astronotus: Greek, astra = ray + Greek, noton = back (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Agassiz.

Issue
Redescription of Peruvian material in Kullander (1986: 61), with diagnosis, description, distribution, and illustrations. The species is reported from the Rio Orinoco drainage and numerous localities in the Rio Amazonas basin, but apparently several species are confused under the name, and names in the synonymy may represent valid species.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range 生態學

; 淡水 底中水層性; pH range: 6.0 - 8.0; dH range: 5 - 19.   熱帶; 22°C - 25°C (Ref. 1672); 4°N - 15°S, 78°W - 47°W

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