Orange Marbled Bichir

The fish habitat stretches from benin to cameroon at that the fish is most often encountered in niger river delta.

Orange marbled bichir. Taken in our facilities by one of us. This picture shows a 10 polypterus palmas that was hungry and looking for food by swimming back a forth across the bottom of the aquarium. Dinosaur bichir sml dinosaur bichir lrg platinum senegal bichir delhezi bichir sml delhezi bichir med. Gold marbled angelfish pictures.

The genus is spread in west africa. Ocean design aquarium 7542 w. The fish is from bichir family and order. Scalare species although they can be somewhat hard to identify genetically as the species readily cross breed some varieties may even be crosses between p.

Click on each picture to see a bigger picture of the entire body of this fish. Those sold as domestic aquarium pets are usually varieties of the p. Orange blaze ocellaris orange skunk tomato clownfish clarkii clownfish deluxe clarki clownfish. Polypterus delhezi md tiger bichir 3 4 polypterus delhezi lg 6 7 polypterus delhezi xlg 8 10 polypterus palmas polli lg orange marbled bichir 7 9 polypterus palmas buettikoferi gold dust 4 5 polypterus palmas buettikoferi 7 9.

Palmas polli by an overall lighter pattern spotted pectoral fins and. The marbled bichir polypterus palmas polli is found in shallow slow moving waters in central and parts of western africa. Polypterids bichirs erpetoichthys calabaricus ropefish reedfish polypterus bichir lapradei koliba polypterus endlicheri saddled bichir polypterus ornatipinnis ornate bichir polypterus palmas buettikoferi senegal river polypterus polli marbled bichir polypterus teugelsi teugels bichir cameroon puffers. Marbled cat shark egg white spotted banded cat shark pair banded cat shark egg squirrelfish.

The rarest of the three known subspecies of polypterus palmas the marbled bichir p. Palmas palmas is found throughout parts of central and west africa but its true range remains unknown due to many years of misidentification and confusion surrounding its close relatives it can be distinguished from the similar looking p. These angels usually have only one gene for the marbled pattern so they are less heavily marbled than angels with two genes for the marble pattern. Click on each picture to see a bigger picture.

It is a smaller growing species only reaching 12 13 as adults and is less predatory than some of their larger mouthed relatives.