Ecology Summary - Acaronia nassa

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Main Ref.	Keith, P., P.-Y. Le Bail and P. Planquette, 2000
Remarks	Collected from a small creek, quite sunny, with amber-colored water, slow current, muddy substrate and approximately 1 m in depth. Solitary. Feeds on shrimps, insect larvae of Odonata, Coleoptera and Hemiptera, as well as on fishes like cyprinodonts, characids. Piscivore (Ref. 76754). Males are bigger than females. Found together with Pterophyllum scalare, Heros efasciatus, Hypselecara temporalis, and Mesonauta guyanae (Ref. 35237).

Main Ref.

Keith, P., P.-Y. Le Bail and P. Planquette, 2000

Remarks

Collected from a small creek, quite sunny, with amber-colored water, slow current, muddy substrate and approximately 1 m in depth. Solitary. Feeds on shrimps, insect larvae of Odonata, Coleoptera and Hemiptera, as well as on fishes like cyprinodonts, characids. Piscivore (Ref. 76754). Males are bigger than females. Found together with Pterophyllum scalare, Heros efasciatus, Hypselecara temporalis, and Mesonauta guyanae (Ref. 35237).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Acaronia nassa may be found.

Habitat

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Feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Keith, P., P.-Y. Le Bail and P. Planquette, 2000
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	Mérona, B. de and J. Rankin-de-Mérona, 2004

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	Original sample		Unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items	3.65	0.57			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
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