Anostomus anostomus, striped headstander

''Anostomus anostomus'', also known as the striped headstander, striped anostomus, and striped anastomus, is a species of fish.

Description

This species is pale peach to pinkish in colour, with long, black, lateral stripes. It grows to approximately 20 cm long. The central stripe terminates in an arch shape at the base of the dorsal find. ''Anostomus anostomus'' appears very similar to ''Anostomus ternetzi'', but can be distinguished by the presence of red tinting on the fins.

Distribution

''Anostomus anostomus'' is native to

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

, and can be found in the

Orinoco The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wor ...

River, in the

Guayana Region The Guayana Region is an administrative region of eastern Venezuela. History In the 1970s, after the process of forming the Political-Administrative Regions through CORDIPLAN in the government of Rafael Caldera, the Region of Guyana was f ...

of the

Upper Amazon The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile. The headwaters of t ...

Diet

This species is both a limnivore and omnivore.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2700107 Anostomidae Fish of South America Fish described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus