Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Cichlidae > Geophagus > Geophagus surinamensis

Geophagus surinamensis (Redstriped eartheater; Opalescent eartheater; Mother-of-pearl eartheater)

Synonyms: Sparus surinamensis; Sparus trimaculatus
Language: Creole, French; Djuka; Finnish; French; Galibi; German; Mandarin Chinese; Oyampi; Palicur; Portuguese; Saramaccan; Swedish; Wayana

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  6 inches (15 cm)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park II 4006523 Bolivia  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Sciadicleithrum geophagi[2]
Sciadicleithrum variabile[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, 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.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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