Diagnostic Description
(
Anglèis
)
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Robust body gray with bluish highlights, deep and almost rhomboid. Males with very long gonopodium that reaches the base of the tail; together with the young, with 6 - 8 dark bars (diffused in females) (Ref. 36880).
- Recorder
- Estelita Emily Capuli
Life Cycle
(
Anglèis
)
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Produces 10-80 young after 28 days gestation (Ref. 2060).
Trophic Strategy
(
Anglèis
)
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Occurs mainly in stagnant waters, creeks and river shorelines, over soft bottoms. On the Atlantic versant it lives between 0 and 500 m of elevation, but in the northern Pacific sector is found between 10 and 45 m in the Tempisque and Bebedero drainages; in the RÃo Tárcoles drainage, where it was probably introduced, it lives between 670 and 1220 m elevation. Inhabits shalllow waters with mud or litter substrata in temperatures of 20 to 37°C. Feeds on ooze, detritus, diatoms and occasionally on filamentous algae and aquatic insects (Ref. 36880).
- Recorder
- Estelita Emily Capuli
Biology
(
Anglèis
)
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Occurs mainly in stagnant waters, creeks and river shorelines, over soft bottoms. On the Atlantic versant it lives between 0 and 500 m of elevation, but in the northern Pacific sector is found between 10 and 45 m in the Tempisque and Bebedero drainages; in the RÃo Tárcoles drainage, where it was probably introduced, it lives between 670 and 1220 m elevation. Inhabits shallow waters with mud or litter substrata in temperatures of 20 to 37°C. Feeds on ooze, detritus, diatoms and occasionally on filamentous algae and aquatic insects (Ref. 36880).
- Recorder
- Estelita Emily Capuli
Importance
(
Anglèis
)
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aquarium: commercial
- Recorder
- Estelita Emily Capuli