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Wrestling Halfbeak
The wrestling halfbeak (''Dermogenys pusilla'') also known as Malayan halfbeak is a species of viviparous halfbeak native to the fresh and brackish waters of rivers and coastal regions in South-East Asia, in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra. It is a small, slender, livebearing fish, with the elongated lower jaw characteristic of its family. The colour of this species varies, depending on where the specimen is found. It is the type species of the genus ''Dermogenys''. Wrestling halfbeaks are surface-feeding fish and feed on a variety of small invertebrates including crustaceans and insect larvae, but especially mosquito larvae and flying insects that have fallen onto the surface of the water. As with all halfbeaks, the upper jaw lifts upwards when the fish is opening its mouth. Wrestling halfbeaks are Live-bearing aquarium fish, livebearing fish, the females giving birth to around twenty offspring after a gestation period of about a month. Wre ...
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Heinrich Kuhl
Heinrich Kuhl (17 September 1797 – 14 September 1821) was a German people, German naturalist and zoologist. Kuhl was born in Hanau (Hesse, Germany). Between 1817 and 1820, he was the assistant of professor Th. van Swinderen, docent natural history at the University of Groningen in Groningen (the Netherlands). In 1817, he published a monograph on bats, and in 1819, he published a survey of the parrots, ''Conspectus psittacorum''. He also published the first monograph on the petrels, and a list of all the birds illustrated in Edme-Louis Daubenton, Daubenton's ''Planches Enluminées'' and with his friend Johan Coenraad van Hasselt (1797–1823) ''Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie'' ("Contributions to Zoology and Comparative Anatomy") that were published at Frankfurt-am-Main, 1820. In 1820, he became assistant to Coenraad Jacob Temminck at the Leiden Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. He then travelled to Java (island), Java, then part of the colonial Netherla ...
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