Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cyprinodontiformes

Family: Cyprinodontidae

Genus: Orestias

Species: Orestias cuvieri Valenciennes, 1846

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Lake dwelling carnivore feeding on plankton and microinvertebrates in the littoral zone; competing for food and space with Basilichthys bonariensis, an introduced species, which endangers it of extinction (Ref. 7301). Not a seasonal killifish (Ref. 27139).

Habitat

benthopelagic