Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Alestidae > Brycinus > Brycinus macrolepidotus

Brycinus macrolepidotus (Characin; Large scaled robber; Silversides; True big-scale tetra)

Synonyms: Alestes macrolepiditus; Alestes macrolepidotus; Alestes rutilus
Language: Adangme; Arabic; Dinka, Northeastern; Ewe; Finnish; Ga; German; Hausa; Ijo; Jula; Kim; M; Mandarin Chinese; Mòoré; Nuer; Shilluk; Wolof; Zande

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.425 lbs (1.10 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  5 years
Migration [2]  Potamodromous

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 3Frimpong, 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.
♦ 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.
♦ 5Gibson, 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