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FishBase Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Pterygoplichthys&speciesname=disjunctivus ---> http://193.10.57.59/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Pterygoplichthys&speciesname=disjunctivus http://193.10.57.59/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Pterygoplichthys&speciesname=disjunctivus ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Pterygoplichthys&speciesname=disjunctivus https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Pterygoplichthys&speciesname=disjunctivus ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Pterygoplichthys-disjunctivus.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua)   About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments & Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload references Fish Watcher Related species Species in Pterygoplichthys Species in Loricariidae - Classification - Hypostominae Loricariidae Siluriformes Teleostei Chordata Animalia     Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus ( Weber , 1991 ) Vermiculated sailfin catfish Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Google image Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus Picture by Ramani Shirantha Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae Etymology: Pterygoplichthys: Greek, pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin + Greek, hoplon = weapon + Greek, ichthys = fish (Ref. 45335 ) . Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Freshwater; demersal. Tropical Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri South America: Madeira River basin. Introduced to countries outside its native range. Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm Max length : 70.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 56962 ) Short description Morphology | Morphometrics Dorsal soft rays (total): 10-14; Anal soft rays : 3 - 5 Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274 ); Typically from floodplain lakes, swamps and borrow pits, in poorly-oxygenated waters and must rely on air breathing for long periods of time. Has a specialized (enlarged) stomach which appear to function as accessory respiratory organs (Ref. 58517 ). Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Fisch-Muller, Sonia | Collaborators Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea and J.D. Williams , 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland. ix, 386 p. + 1 CD. (Ref. 52299 ) IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983 )     Not Evaluated   CITES Not Evaluated CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans   Potential pest (Ref. 56962 ) Human uses Aquarium: commercial FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Allele frequencies Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. Sounds Ciguatera Speed Swim. type Gill area Otoliths Brains Vision Tools E-book | Field guide | Length-frequency wizard | Life-history tool | Point map | Classification Tree | Catch-MSY | Special reports Check for Aquarium maintenance | Check for Species Fact Sheets | Check for Aquaculture Fact Sheets Download XML Summary page | Point data | Common names | Photos Internet sources AFORO (otoliths) | Alien/Invasive Species database | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes : genus , species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome , nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | National databases | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go , Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoological Record Estimates based on models Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.02570 (0.01551 - 0.04261), b=2.94 (2.80 - 3.08), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for species & Genus-BS (Ref. 93245 ). Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Assuming Tmax >3). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Moderate to high vulnerability (48 of 100). Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 88 [48, 171] mg/100g ; Iron = 1.27 [0.71, 2.24] mg/100g ; Protein = 16.2 [15.1, 17.4] % ; Omega3 = 0.273 [0.106, 0.701] g/100g ; Selenium = 126 [53, 312] μg/100g ; VitaminA = 21.9 [7.5, 60.0] μg/100g ; Zinc = 1.62 [1.07, 2.41] mg/100g (wet weight); Comments & Corrections Back to Search Random Species Back to Top Accessed through: Not available FishBase mirror site : Paris, France Page last modified by : mrius-barile Updated: 2023-10-03 00:48:52 gmt TaiBIF | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation