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Hoplosternum littorale (Hassar; Catfish; Brown hoplo; Atipa)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hoplosternum littorale is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) belonging to the Callichthyinae subfamily of the family Callichthyidae. It is known as tamuatá in Brazil, atipa in French Guiana, hassar in Guyana, kwi kwi (or kwie kwie ) in Suriname, cascadu(ra) in Trinidad and Tobago, and busco or currito in Venezuela.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  9 inches (24 cm)
Maximum Longevity [1]  4 years
Diet [2]  Detritivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Female Maturity [1]  1 year

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Florida Peninsula United States Nearctic Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve State Sustainable Development Reserve VI 3260792 Amazonas, Brazil  

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[3]
Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus[3]
Fenestraria rhopalophylla (babies toes)[3]

Predators

Busarellus nigricollis (Black-collared Hawk)[4]
Jabiru mycteria (Jabiru)[4]
Plagioscion squamosissimus (South American silver croaker)[5]
Pygocentrus cariba (Orinoco piranha)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Clinostomum complanatum[7]
Spasskyellina spinulifera[7]

External References

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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.
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5FEEDING ECOLOGY OF CURVINA Plagioscion squamosissimus (HECHEL, 1840) (OSTEICHTHYES, PERCIFORMES) IN THE ITAIPU RESERVOIR AND PORTO RICO FLOOD PLAIN; HAHN, N.S.; AGOSTINHO, A.A. & GOITEIN, R.; Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia vol. 9 1997 11-22
♦ 6Food Habits of Piranhas in the Low Llanos of Venezuela, Leo G. Nico; Donald C. Taphorn, Biotropica, Vol. 20, No. 4. (Dec., 1988), pp. 311-321.
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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