Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Lebiasinidae > Nannostomus > Nannostomus trifasciatus

Nannostomus trifasciatus (Threebanded pencilfish; Threeline pencilfish; Three-lined pencilfish; Threestripe pencilfish)

Synonyms: Poecilobrycon trifasciatus; Poecilobrycon vittatus
Language: Danish; Finnish; German; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Nannostomus trifasciatus, commonly known as the three-lined or three-stripepencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the Lebiasinidae family of characins. They are popular in the aquarium trade due to their small size, beautiful color pattern, and relative hardiness.
View Wikipedia Record: Nannostomus trifasciatus

Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams
Diet [1]  Omnivore, Detritivore

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  

Predators

Monocirrhus polyacanthus (Amazon leaffish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Clinostomum complanatum[3]

External References

Citations

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
♦ 2FEEDING ECOLOGY OF THE LEAF FISH MONOCIRRHUS POLYACANTHUS (PERCIFORMES: POLYCENTRIDAE) IN THE AMANÃ LAKE, BRAZILIAN AMAZON., Michel F. Catarino, Jansen Zuanon, Fish Communities and Fisheries, SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, International Congress on the Biology of Fish 2004, pp. 219-222
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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