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Home Aquarium Fish of Daracua - Amazon Forest Rio Negro River Area Brazil Paracheirodon axelrodi Laetacara thayeri Fluviphylax pygmaeus Dicrosus filamentosus Biotoecus opercularis Taenacara candidi Cardinal Tetra (Cardinal Tetra) Orange-Fin Acara (Laranja acará fin) Pygmy Lampeye (Pigmeu lâmpada olho) Checkerboard Cichild (Xadres) Cupid Cichild (Cupido) Black-Stripe Dwarf Cichlid (Tarja Preta) Symphysodon discus Hypselacara coryphaenoides Ancistrus dolichopterus Apistogramma agassizii Apistogramma brevis Apistogramma diplotaenia Heckle Discus (Acara-disco) Rio Negro Chocolate Cichild (Acara-preto) White Seam Pleco (Bodo-seda) Agassiz Dwarf Cichlid (Cichlid do anão) Brevis Dwarf CIchlid (Brevis ciclídeo) Double Banded Apistogramma (Duplo Banded Apistogramma) Apistogramma elizabethae Apistogramma gephyra Apistogramma gibbiceps Yellow- Apistogramma hippolytae Apistogramma meinkeni Apistogramma mendezi Mendezi Elizabeth Dwarf Cichlid (Elizabeth Cichlid do Mottled Dwarf Cichlid (Cichlid do anão Mottled) Cheeked Dwarf Cichlid (Cichlid do anão Empress Dwarf Cichlid (Cichlid do anão Meinkens Dwarf Cichlid (Meinkens Cichlid do Dwarf Cichlid (Mendezi Cichlid do anão) anão) Amarelo-Cheeked) Imperatriz) anão) Apistogramma paucisquamis Apistogramma personata Personata Apistogramma pertensis Amazon Apistogramma regani Apistogramma resticulosa Apistogramma uaupesi Paucis Dwarf Cichlid (Paucis Cichlid do anão) Dwarf Cichlid (Personata Cichlid do anão) Dwarf Cichlid (Amazonia Cichlid do anão) Regan's Dwarf Cichlid (Regan Cichlid do anão) Apisto Blue Head (Apisto Azul Cabeça) Resti Dwarf Cichlid (Resti Cichlid do anão) Hyphessobrycon pyrrhonotus Carnegiella marthae Hemigrammus rhodostomus Liosomadoras oncinus Bleeding Heart Tetra (Rosaceu-do-Erere) Black-Winged Hatchetfish (Borboleta branca) Rummy-nose tetra (Rodostomo) Jaguar Catfish (Anuja-onca).

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Populacional Structure of Apistogramma Agassizii
Acta Fish. Aquat. Res. (2017) 5 (3): 61-67 DOI 10.2312/ActaFish.2017.5.3.61-67 ARTIGO ORIGINAL Acta of Acta of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Populacional structure of Apistogramma agassizii (Steindachner, 1875) (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in aquatic environments of the Amana Sustainable Development Reserve (Amazonas - Brazil) Estrutura populacional de Apistogramma agassizii (Steindachner, 1875) (Perciformes: Cichlidae) em ambientes aquáticos da Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Amanã (Amazonas - Brasil) Jomara Cavalcante de Oliveira1,2*, Sidinéia Aparecida Amadio2 & Helder Lima de Queiroz1 1 Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá - IDSM 2 Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biologia Aquática (CPBA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA *E-mail [email protected] Recebido: 16 de março de 2017 / Aceito: 20 de novembro de 2017 / Publicado: 9 de dezembro de 2017 Abstract Apistogramma agassizii is a dwarf cichlid Resumo Apistogramma agassizii é uma espécie de species endemic of the Amazon basin, about which ciclídeo anão endêmico da bacia amazônica, a qual there is little biological and ecological information poucas informações sobre biologia e ecologia são in their natural habitat, despite their ornamental conhecidas para seu habitat natural, apesar de sua importance. This study evaluated the populacional importância ornamental. Neste estudo avaliamos a structure A. agassizii at Amana Sustainable estrutura populacional de A. agassizii na Reserva de Development Reserve, Middle Solimões basin, Desenvolvimento Sustentável Amanã (RDSA), Amazonas, Brazil. Positive sexual dimorphism bacia do Médio Solimões, Amazonas, Brasil. O found is probably related to the reproductive dimorfismo sexual positivo encontrado behavior of the species. Some management provavelmente está relacionado ao comportamento suggestions are offered to support the sustainable reprodutivo da espécie.
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