Acanthobrama hulensis

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Overview

Family : Minnows or carps ; A bottom feeder , its diet consisting partly of mollusks. Spawned from February to April.

Extinct

Common Names

Description

Family Cyprinidae

Distribution: North America (northern Canada to southern Mexico), Africa, and Eurasia . Pharynx with 1-3 rows of teeth, each row with a maximum of 8 teeth. Usually thin lips , plicae or papillae absent; mouth sometimes suckerlike (Garra and Labeo). With or without barbels . Premaxilla usually borders the upper jaw making the maxilla entirely or almost entirely excluded from the gape. Usually protrusible upper jaw. Dorsal fin with spinelike rays in some. Primitive number of chromosomes 2n=50, some with 48; polyploidy exists. Maximum length at least 2.5 m to probably 3 m in Catlocarpio siamensis; many species less than 5 cm. Mainly non-guarders, but in some species males build nests and/or protect the eggs .The family Cyprinidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Cypriniformes. It contains 210 genera and 2010 species. It may be found in Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Primary freshwater. Many members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is subcarangiform. Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be normal. Members of this family have been dated back to the Eocene epoch of the Tertiary period. This family may be found from 70° n to 34° s and 150° w to 170° e. Etymology of this family name : Greek, kyprinos = goldfish .

Habitat

Biome: Fresh water . Benthopelagic.

Ecology: A. hulensis lived in Lake Hula and its adjacent marshes. It reached 230 mm total length, spawned from February to April.[1]


List of Habitats :5.4Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands 5.5Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)

Taxonomy

Ambiguous Synonyms

1. Alburnus sellal Heckel, 1843

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Mirogrex terraesanctae hulensis Goren, Fishelson & Trewavas, 1973

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 06-Apr-1997

Similar Species

Members of the genus Acanthobrama

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. arrhada · A. centisquama · A. cupida · A. cupido · A. hadiyahensis · A. hulensis · A. kuschakewitschi · A. lissneri · A. marmid · A. marmid elata · A. marmid marmid · A. marmid orontis · A. mirabilis · A. simoni · A. telavivensis · A. telavivensis · A. terrae-sanctae oligolepis · A. terraesanctae (Kinneret Bleak) · A. terraesanctae oligolepis · A. tricolor

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Further Reading

• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Goren, M. and Ortal, R. 1999. Biogeography, diversity and conservation of the inland water fish communities in Israel. Biological Conservation 89:1–9.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Krupp, F. and Schneider, W. 1989. The fishes of the Jordan River drainage basin and Azraq Oasis. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 10: 347-416.
• Krupp, F. and W. Schneider (1989). The fishes of the Jordan River drainage basin and Azraq Oasis. p. 347-416. In Fauna of Saudi Arabia. vol. 10.
• RAMSAR. 1971. National Report of Israel for COP 7. Ramsar Convention Bureau, Switzerland.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Crivelli, A.J. 2005. Acanthobrama hulensis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 14 January 2007.
• Crivelli, A.J. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• FishBase
• FishBase 2006.
• Westneat, Mark (from FishBase).
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Acanthobrama hulensis. In: IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.redlist.org . Downloaded on 30 January 2005.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3846844
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-58735
• Fishbase Species ID: 25773
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 688353
• IUCN ID: 73
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1286

Footnotes

1. Crivelli, A.J. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]

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