The blackstripe corydoras or Bond's catfish (''Corydoras bondi'') is a
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
freshwater fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...
belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the family
Callichthyidae
Callichthyidae is a family of catfishes (order Siluriformes), called armored catfishes due to the two rows of bony plates (or scutes) along the lengths of their bodies. It contains some of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish, such as many ...
. It originates in inland waters in
South America
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, and is found in the
Yuruarí River
Yuruarí River is a river of Venezuela. It is part of the Essequibo River basin.
See also
*List of rivers of Venezuela
This is a list of rivers in Venezuela.
By drainage basin
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in
Venezuela
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and the
Corantijn and
Rupununi River
The Rupununi is a region in the south-west of Guyana, bordering the Brazilian Amazon. The Rupununi river, also known by the local indigenous peoples as ''Raponani'', flows through the Rupununi region. The name Rupununi originates from the word '' ...
basins in
Guyana and
Suriname. In the system of "C-Numbers" developed by the German fishkeeping magazine DATZ to identify undescribed species of ''Corydoras'' in the aquarium hobby, this fish had been assigned number "C31" until it was correctly identified.
The fish will grow in length up to 1.9 inches (4.7 centimeters). It lives in a
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
climate in water with a 6.0 – 8.0
pH, a water hardness of 2 – 25
dGH, and a temperature range of 72 – 79 °F (22 – 26 °C). It feeds on
worm
Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always).
Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete wo ...
s,
benthic crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can ...
s,
insect
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s, and
plant
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matter. It lays eggs in dense vegetation and adults do not guard the eggs. The female holds 2–4 eggs between her pelvic fins, where the male fertilizes them for about 30 seconds. Only then does the female swim to a suitable spot, where she attaches the very sticky eggs. The pair repeats this process until about 100 eggs have been fertilized and attached.
The blackstripe corydoras is of commercial importance in the aquarium trade industry.
See also
*
List of freshwater aquarium fish species
References
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External links
Photos at Fishbase
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Corydoras
Taxa named by William Alonzo Gosline III
Fish described in 1940