Mesonauta acora

Mesonauta acora is a species of cichlid fish endemic to the Amazon Basin of Brazil; specifically, to blackwater in the Xingu and Tocantins River basins in South America. The species was named by François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau in 1855.^[1][2][3]

Mesonauta acora
Stressed pattern. Painting by Castelnau from the South America Expedition, published 1856
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Genus:	Mesonauta
Species:	M. acora
Binomial name
Mesonauta acora (Castelnau, 1855)
Synonyms
Chromys acora Castelnau, 1855

All Mesonauta Acoras are omnivores. Their diet is composed of insects, aquatic invertebrates and algae. ^[4]

See also

• List of freshwater aquarium fish species

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Mesonauta acora". FishBase. February 2013 version.
2. Loiselle, Paul V. (1995). The Cichlid Aquarium. Germany: Tetra Press. ISBN 1-56465-146-0.
3. Kullander, S.O. (1998). "A phylogeny and classification of the South American Cichlidae (Teleostei: Perciformes)". In L.R. Malabarba; R.E. Reis; R.P. Vari; Z.M. Lucena; C.A.S. Lucena (eds.). Phylogeny and classification of neotropical fishes. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS. pp. 461–498. ISBN 978-85-7430-035-1.
4. Pantoja, Farias (2015). "Parasites component community in wild population of Pterophyllum scalare Schultze, 1823 and Mesonauta acora Castelnau, 1855, cichlids from the Brazilian Amazon". Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 31 (6): 1043–1048. Bibcode:2015JApIc..31.1043F. doi:10.1111/jai.12903. S2CID 86117229.