Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Cichlidae > Mesonauta > Mesonauta festivus

Mesonauta festivus (Flag cichlid; Festivum; Festive cichlid; Barred cichlid)

Synonyms: Cichlasoma festivum; Heros festivus; Mesonauta festiva
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Wikipedia Abstract

Mesonauta festivus, the flag cichlid, is a species of cichlid native to tropical rivers in Brazil, Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia. It can reach a length of 8.2 centimetres (3.2 in) SL. It is also popular in the aquarium trade.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Guapore - Itenez Bolivia, Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    

Protected Areas

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

Prey / Diet

Echinochloa polystachya (creeping rivergrass)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pandosentis iracundus[2]
Rhabdochona kidderi[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2Gibson, 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