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Anadoras grypus (Cope, 1872)

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Description: Similar to Amblydoras nauticus but this species has a serrated dorsal fin ray against A. grypus which is smooth. There is also a difference in the colour patterns and the shape of the head fontanels. The bony plates are also smaller than on Amblydoras. Aquarium Care: As this species can grow modertly large you would need to house with same size species or near as they could pick off small fish at night as this is, as most Dorads are, reclusive during daylight hours. Diet: Tablet foods, frozen and live worms. Will also eat snails in the aquarium. Etymology: The specific name grypus: From grypós (Gr.), curved or hook-nosed, referring to its short, smoothly curved snout (Mark H. Sabaj Pérez, pers. comm.).

Common Name:

Dusky Doradid

Synonyms:

Doras grypus

Family:

Doradidae

Distribution:

South America: Upper Amazon River basin: Peru. Type locality: Small streams tributary to the Ambyiacu, as well as the river itself, which empties into the Amazon near Pebas, in Eastern Ecuador, some distance east of the Napo.

Size:

15.0cm. (6ins)

Temp:

22-26°C (71-79°F)

p.H.

6.5-7.2.

IUCN Red List

This species is listed as Least Concern because it is widely distributed, is locally abundant, there are no major threats affecting it and occurs in many protected areas (IUCN 2023).

Reference:

Baensch, H.A. and R. Riehl 1985 Aquarien atlas. Band 2. Mergus, Verlag für Natur- und Heimtierkunde GmbH, Melle, Germany. 1216 p.
Correa, E., Chuctaya, J., Sarmiento, J., Carvajal, F., Sanchez-Duarte, P., Arguello, P. & Salvador, G.N. 2023. Anadoras grypus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2023.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.

Family: Doradidae Back to Ident-A-Cat Click on Thumbnails

Anadoras grypus

Anadoras grypus
Close-up of Humeral Process

Anadoras grypus
Close-up of Caudal

Anadoras grypus
Ventral view

Anadoras grypus

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