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Moenkhausia copei

Synonyms: Tetragonopterus copei
Language: Finnish; German; Spanish

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    

Predators

Boulengerella cuvieri (Pike characin)[1]
Boulengerella lucius (Pirapucu)[1]
Cichla orinocensis (Cichlid)[1]
Cichla temensis (Painted pavon)[1]
Crenicichla lugubris (Spottail pike cichlid)[2]

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
♦ 2Comparative feeding ecology and habitats use of Crenicichla species (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in a Venezuelan floodplain river, Carmen G. Montaña and Kirk O. Winemiller, Neotropical Ichthyology, 7(2):267-274, 2009
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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