Aphanius fasciatus, Mediterranean banded killifish : aquarium

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Aphanius fasciatus (Valenciennes, 1821)

Mediterranean banded killifish
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> Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Aphaniidae (Oriental killifishes)
More on author: Valenciennes.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / rango de profundidad / distribution range Ecología

marino; agua dulce; salobre bentopelágico; pH range: 6.5 - 7.5; dH range: 8 - 10; no migratorio. Subtropical; 10°C - 24°C (Ref. 1672); 46°N - 34°N, 2°E - 36°E

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Europe: France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Greece and Montenegro. Mediterranean basin: North Africa from Egypt to eastern Algeria, sometimes in landlocked basins; through the Suez Canal into the Bitter Lakes, Egypt (Ref. 3788). Asia: Turkey.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.8 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 42455)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Radios blandos anales: 9. Can be diagnosed from other species of Aphanius, Valenciidae and Fundulidae in Europe by having the following characters: males have pale yellow to yellow-orange caudal fin, in some populations with a wide dark submarginal bar, 8-15 dark blue to grey bars on a silvery background, bars usually regularly shaped and set; females possess 11-17 short dark brown bars on sides, over a faint greyish midlateral stripe, 24-29 scales in midlateral series on body, and pectoral fin with 14-15 rays (Ref. 59043).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Occurs in coastal lagoons and in hypersaline to shallow still to slow-flowing fresh water, especially at river mouths (Ref. 59043). A short-lived species which inhabits ponds, ditches and swamps. Feeds on invertebrates and plants. Spawns from April to September (Ref. 26100). Spawning takes place on the bottom and in submerged vegetation (Ref. 59043). Threatened due to habitat destruction and the introduction of other species (Ref. 26100). Not a seasonal killifish. Is difficult to maintain in the aquarium (Ref. 27139).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador | Colaboradores

Freyhof, J. and B. Yoğurtçuoğlu, 2020. A proposal for a new generic structure of the killifish family Aphaniidae, with the description of Aphaniops teimorii (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Zootaxa 4810(3):421-451. (Ref. 126233)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 05 May 2022

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesquerías: sin interés; Acuario: Comercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Referencia 123201): 17.6 - 20.1, mean 18.9 °C (based on 346 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Referencia 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00977 (0.00817 - 0.01170), b=3.24 (3.19 - 3.29), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278):  2.7   ±0.27 se; based on food items.
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179):  Alto, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo inferior a 15 meses (K=0.16-0.22 questionable; assuming tm<1).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈