Animalia > Chordata > Percopsiformes > Aphredoderidae > Aphredoderus > Aphredoderus sayanusAphredoderus sayanus (Pirate perch)Synonyms: Aphredoderus gibbosus; Aphredoderus sayanus gibbosus; Aphredoderus sayanus sayanus; Aphrodedirus cookianus; Asternotremia mesotrema; Scolopsis sayanus; Sternotremia isolepis Language: Danish; German; Mandarin Chinese; Russian; Swedish The pirate perch (Aphredoderus sayanus) is a freshwater fish that commonly inhabits coastal waters along the east coast of the United States and the backwater areas of the Mississippi Valley. This species is often found towards the bottom of clear, warm water habitats with low currents. These fish are normally solitary, carnivorous, and nocturnal. The pirate perch is known to consume live mosquito larva, amphipods, glass shrimp, meal worms, small fish, dragonfly and stonefly larvae, and earthworms. |
| Adult Length [2] | 6 inches (14 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [2] | Hidden | | Brood Egg Substrate [2] | Speleophils (cavity generalist) | | Brood Guarder [2] | No | | Litter Size [2] | 400 | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 4 years | | Nocturnal [1] | Yes | | Water Biome [1] | Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams |  | | Diet [1] | Carnivore | | | Female Maturity [2] | 2 years |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Upper Mississippi |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park |
V |
9316 |
Virginia, United States |
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Congaree Swamp National Park |
II |
6095 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
V |
1926 |
Alabama, United States |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
28351 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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New Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve |
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New Jersey, United States |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Habitat Vegetation Classification |
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Location |
Website |
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Bald-cypress - Water Tupelo Floodplain Forest |
United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi) |
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Bald-cypress Floodplain Forest |
United States (Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Missouri, Texas) |
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Water Tupelo Swamp Forest |
United States (Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia) |
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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♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 4Jorrit 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. 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
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