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> Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Anablepidae (Four-eyed fishes, onesided livebearers & white-eye) > Anablepinae
Etymology: Anableps: Greek, ana = up + Greek, blepo, blepsis, -eos = glance, sight (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

; agua dulce; salobre demersal; no migratorio. Tropical; 24°C - 28°C (Ref. 1672)

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Point map | Introducciones | Faunafri

South America: Trinidad and Venezuela to the Amazon delta in Brazil.

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m 13.0 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 35237); common length : 14.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 5217); peso máximo publicado: 400.00 g (Ref. 35237)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Eye divided into aerial and aquatic parts. Fewer than 80 scales in row above lateral line (Ref. 26938).

Mainly found in freshwater, sometimes in brackish parts of lagoons and mangrove coastlines (Ref. 26938). Moves in schools (Ref. 26938). Feeds on insects (Ref. 7020), other invertebrates and diatoms living on the mud, and small fishes (Ref. 35237). Can remain on mud bottom exposed to air during low tide (Ref. 26938). Used in eye research (Ref. 4537). Often travels in schools (Ref. 26938).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Reproducción | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larva

Length at birth 4.5 5.2 cm TL (Ref. 35237).

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Ghedotti, Michael J. | Colaboradores

Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez, 1992. Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome. 513 p. Preparado con el financiamento de la Comisión de Comunidades Europeas y de NORAD. (Ref. 5217)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 10 April 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

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Anableps anableps (Linnaeus, 1758)