Ecology Summary - Anableps anableps

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Main Ref.	Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez, 1992
Remarks	Mainly found in freshwater, sometimes in brackish parts of lagoons and mangrove coastlines. Moves in schools. Can remain on mud bottom exposed to air during low tide (Ref. 26938). Estuarine species that uses mangrove creeks throughout its life cycle (Ref. 121951). Also found in murky intertidal zone, oceanic shore waters and freshwater streams (Ref. 121949). Feeds in exposed flat mud banks durig ebb tide, consumes mud, algae and arthropods (Ref. 121950).

Main Ref.

Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez, 1992

Remarks

Mainly found in freshwater, sometimes in brackish parts of lagoons and mangrove coastlines. Moves in schools. Can remain on mud bottom exposed to air during low tide (Ref. 26938). Estuarine species that uses mangrove creeks throughout its life cycle (Ref. 121951). Also found in murky intertidal zone, oceanic shore waters and freshwater streams (Ref. 121949). Feeds in exposed flat mud banks durig ebb tide, consumes mud, algae and arthropods (Ref. 121950).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Anableps anableps may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic: demersal; Soft Bottom: mud;
Substrate Ref.
Special habitats
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Associations

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Feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Mills, D. and G. Vevers, 1989
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	Mills, D. and G. Vevers, 1989

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	Original sample		Unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items	3.30	0.46			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
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