Description

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Common Names

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刺毛鼻鯰 , Mandarin Chinese , China

刺毛鼻鲶 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Bagrecito , Spanish , Ecuador

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Siluriformes

Family: Trichomycteridae

Genus: Acanthopoma

Species: Acanthopoma annectens Lütken, 1892

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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South America: Upper and middle Amazon River basin.

Biology

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Attacks like a leech and produces wounds all over the fish which it attacks. It spreads a bundle of opercular and inter-opercular spines into the wound and remains there, being very difficult to remove. Invades the 'private parts' of wading or swimming animals but apparently exist in these passages only for a short while, as they quickly die from a lack of oxygen (Ref. 6868).

Habitat

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demersal