Ambassidae

Various glass cichlid species in an illustration from "The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. " the British ichthyologist Francis Day ( 1829-1889 ).

The family of glass perch ( Ambassidae, Syn Chan Didae ) belongs to the group of the perch family ( Percomorphaceae ) and comprises 8 genera with almost 50 species.

Features

Glass perch are small, only two to 26 centimeters long fish. They have a high-backed, laterally compressed body. Many species are partially transparent so you can see the bones and internal organs. Glass have a high perch, first dorsal fin with seven or eight hard fin rays. The second dorsal fin has weichstrahlige seven to eleven rays, the anal fin has three hard - and seven to eleven soft rays.

Dissemination

The fish live in the coastal sea, brackish water and fresh water in the region of the Indian Ocean and the western tropical Pacific from Madagascar to India to Australia.

Way of life

Glass perch eat small crustaceans. For reproduction, they attach their eggs on aquatic plants or lay pelagic eggs.

System

  • Genus Ambassis Ambassis agassizii Steindachner, 1867.
  • Ambassis agrammus Günther, 1867.
  • Ambassis Ambassis ( Lacépède, 1802).
  • Ambassis buruensis Bleeker, 1856.
  • Ambassis buton Popta, 1918.
  • Ambassis dussumieri Cuvier, 1828th
  • Ambassis elongatus ( Castelnau, 1878).
  • Ambassis fontoynonti Pellegrin, 1932.
  • Ambassis gymnocephalus ( Lacépède, 1802).
  • Ambassis interrupta Bleeker, 1852.
  • Ambassis jacksoniensis ( Macleay, 1881).
  • Ambassis kopsii Bleeker, 1858.
  • Ambassis macleayi ( Castelnau, 1878).
  • Ambassis macracanthus Bleeker, 1849.
  • Ambassis marianus Günther, 1880.
  • Ambassis miops Günther, 1872.
  • Ambassis muelleri Klunzinger, 1880.
  • Ambassis Nalua (Hamilton, 1822).
  • Ambassis natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908.
  • Ambassis productus Guichenot, 1866.
  • Ambassis urotaenia Bleeker, 1852.
  • Ambassis vachellii Richardson, 1846.
  • Chanda nama Hamilton, 1822.
  • Denariusa australis ( Steindachner, 1867).
  • Gymnochanda filamentosa Boeseman, 1957.
  • Gymnochanda Flamea Roberts, 1994.
  • Gymnochanda limi Kottelat, 1995.
  • Gymnochanda verae Tan & Lim, 2011.
  • Paradoxodacna piratica Roberts, 1989.
  • Parambassis alleni Datta & Chaudhuri, 1993.
  • Parambassis altipinnis Allen, 1982.
  • Parambassis apogonoides ( Bleeker, 1851).
  • Parambassis baculis (Hamilton, 1822).
  • Parambassis bistigmata Geetakumari, in 2012.
  • Parambassis confinis ( Weber, 1913).
  • Parambassis dayi ( Bleeker, 1874).
  • Parambassis gulliveri ( Castelnau, 1878).
  • Parambassis lala (Hamilton, 1822).
  • Parambassis macrolepis ( Bleeker, 1857).
  • Parambassis pulcinella Kottelat, 2003.
  • Parambassis ranga (Hamilton, 1822).
  • Parambassis siamensis ( Fowler, 1937).
  • Parambassis tenasserimensis Roberts, 1994.
  • Parambassis thomassi ( Day, 1870).
  • Parambassis vollmeri Roberts, 1994.
  • Parambassis waikhomi Geetakumari & Basudha, in 2012.
  • Parambassis wolffii ( Bleeker, 1851).
  • Pseudambassis roberti Datta & Chaudhuri, 1993.
  • Tetra Centrum apogonoides ( Bleeker, 1851).
  • Tetra Centrum caudovittatus (Norman, 1935).
  • Tetra Centrum honessi ( Schultz, 1945).

Aquarium maintenance

Some species are kept in aquariums. They are considered sensitive Pfleglinge that take on live food and are very skittish. Some species were also grown. The tiny size of the larvae rearing very difficult.

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