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Giuris margaritacea (Snakehead gudgeon)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The snakehead gudgeon (Giuris margaritacea) is a species of sleeper goby found in marine, brackish, and fresh waters from Madagascar to Melanesia. This species grows to a length of 23 cm (9.1 in) with a maximum recorded weight of 171 g (6.0 oz). This species is important to the local peoples as a food fish. This species is the only known member of its genus.
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Infraspecies

Ophiocara aporos aporos
Ophiocara aporos var. aporos

Attributes

Migration [1]  Amphidromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Prey / Diet

Bosmina fatalis[2]
Gobiopterus lacustris (Lacustrine goby)[2]

Predators

Brustiarius solidus (Kanganaman catfish)[2]
Glossamia gjellerupi (Gjellerup's cardinalfish)[3]
Neoarius coatesi (Coates' catfish)[2]
Oxyeleotris heterodon (Sentani gudgeon)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acanthotrema tanayense[5]
Echinochasmus novalichesensis[5]
Stictodora guerreroi[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3{Biology of the cardinalfish Glossamia gjellerupi (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from the Sepik-Ramu River basin, Papua New Guinea, Paul A.M. van Zwieten, Environmental Biology of Fishes 42: 161-179, 1995.
♦ 4Biology of Oxyeleotris heterodon and its major prey, Ophieleotris aporos, two floodplain sleepers (Pisces: Eleotrididae) of the Sepik River fishery, northern Papua New Guinea, David Coates, Environmental Biology of Fishes 34: 51-64, 1992.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0