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Cichla orinocensis (Cichlid)

Synonyms: Cichla argus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Cichla orinocensis, sometimes known as the Orinoco peacock bass ("peacock bass" is also used for some of its relatives), is a very large species of cichlid. It is native to the Rio Negro and Orinoco river basins in northern South America, and reaches about 62 centimetres (24 in) in length.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Orinoco Guiana Shield Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    
Orinoco Llanos Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Boulengerella cuvieri (Pike characin)6
Boulengerella lucius (Pirapucu)6
Cichla temensis (Painted pavon)6
Crenicichla lugubris (Spottail pike cichlid)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Gape size influences seasonal patterns of piscivore diets in three Neotropical rivers, Carmen G. Montaña, Craig A. Layman and Kirk O. Winemiller, Neotropical Ichthyology, 9(3): 647-655, 2011
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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