FB-10725 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10725 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Characiformes Gasteropelecidae Gasteropelecus Gasteropelecus sternicla (Linnaeus, 1758) Pstrazen srebrzysty Borboleta Sapopema Voador Almindelig øksefisk Gemeiner Silberbeilbauchfisch Silber beilbauchfisch Silberbeilbauchfisch Common hatchetfish River hatchetfish Silver hatchet fish Silver hatchetfish Tapparakala Poisson hachette argenté Pechito Pechito plateado de raya negra Sternicla Volador Agochibi chiba Agosibi siba Elépatakawi Kalimasaya Kamisalayan Navadna golšarica Polomochimbo Polomosimbo Poson rach Timbibé Yaya gro tjò Yaya hache Yaya rach 胸斧魚 胸斧鱼 Clupea sternicla Linnaeus, 1758 Gasteropelecus argenteus Lacepède, 1803 Gasteropelecus coronatus Allen, 1942 Gasteropelecus sternicla marowini Hoedeman, 1952 Gasteropelecus sternicla morae Hoedeman, 1952 Salmo gasteropelecus Pallas, 1770 1994-06-13 2018-02-09 Wheeler, A.0 Das grosse Buch der Fische. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co. 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(Ref. 137577) FB-GeneralDescr-10725 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1994-06-13 00:00:00 2025-07-01 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10725 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Gregarious, can sometimes be aggressive or calm. Frequents slow-flowing waters of creeks and swamps (Ref. 27188). Lives in groups at the surface. It is capable of capturing small aerial insects. The females are bigger than the males. Feeds on worms, crustaceans and insects (Ref. 7020). Has not been bred in captivity (Ref. 27188). Aquarium specimens reach 6.5 cm TL (Ref. 7020). Aquarium keeping: in groups of 5 or more individuals; may jump out of the aquarium; minimum aquarium size 80 cm (Ref. 51539). Weitzman, S.H. and L. Palmer 2003 Gasteropelecidae (Freshwater hatchetfishes). p. 101-103. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 39056) FB-Distribution-10725 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1994-06-13 00:00:00 2024-01-11 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10725 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses South America: Peruvian Amazon, middle Amazon, the Guianas and Venezuela (Ref. 39056). Recorded from the Paraguay basin (Ref. 81048). Weitzman, S.H. and L. Palmer 2003 Gasteropelecidae (Freshwater hatchetfishes). p. 101-103. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 39056) FB-Uses-10725 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1994-06-13 00:00:00 2025-07-01 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10725 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size fisheries: commercial; aquaculture: commercial; aquarium: commercial Planquette, P., P. Keith and P.-Y. Le Bail 1996 Atlas des poissons d'eau douce de Guyane. Tome 1. Collection du Patrimoine Naturel Volume 22, MNHN, Paris & INRA, Paris. 429 p. (Ref. 12225) Mills, D. and G. Vevers 1989 The Tetra encyclopedia of freshwater tropical aquarium fishes. Tetra Press, New Jersey. 208 p. (Ref. 7020) FB-Size-10725 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1994-06-13 00:00:00 2025-07-01 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10725 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats 4.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 137577)) Price, S.A., S.T. Friedman, K.A. Corn, O. Larouche, K. Brockelsby, A.J. Lee, M. Nagaraj, N.G. Bertrand, M. Danao, M.C. Coyne, J.R. Estrada, R. Friedman, E. Hoeft, M. Iwan, D. Gross, J.H. Kao, B. Landry, M.J. Linares, C. McGlinn and … 2022 FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions. Ecology 103(e3829):1-2. (Ref. 137577) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-10725 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1994-06-13 00:00:00 2025-07-01 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ FAO General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10725 pelagic; freshwater; pH range: 6.0 - 7.0; dH range: 15