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Table 6 Feeding habits of ornamental fish according to artisanal fishers (“piabeiros”)

From: Ichthyological ethnoknowledge of the “piabeiros” from the Amazon region, Brazil

Species

Ornamental fish food items

No answer

Shrimp Decapoda

Snails Gastropoda

Crab Decapoda

Insects

Worm Oligochaeta

Fish

Detritus

Periphyton

Plant material

Non-plant organic material

%

n

%

N

%

N

%

n

%

n

%

N

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

Acará disco

      

4.76

1

  

2.27

2

  

8.22

30

3.08

2

5.88

1

4

Acará azulão

              

0.27

1

1.54

1

   

Acará baru

              

0.27

1

1.54

1

   

Acará peixeiro

              

0.27

1

1.54

1

   

Anostomo trifaciato

              

0.55

2

     

Apistograma

        

2

1

1.14

1

  

3.01

11

3.08

2

5.88

1

14

Araia aireba

22.22

2

  

20

1

  

6

3

2.27

2

7.69

2

0.27

1

  

5.88

1

1

Araia cururu

33.33

3

  

60

3

  

32

16

11.4

10

19.23

5

0.27

1

3.08

2

5.88

1

7

Araia motoro

22.22

2

100

1

20

1

  

32

16

11.4

10

3.85

1

0.27

1

1.54

1

  

8

Araia orbignyi

          

1.14

1

         

Araia schroederi

          

1.14

1

         

Araia

22.22

2

      

28

14

17

15

30.77

8

1.10

4

    

16

Aruanã

          

1.14

1

        

1

Bodó cor de mapa

              

0.27

1

     

Bodó cutia

            

3.85

1

1.10

4

     

Bodó espinho

      

4.76

1

      

1.10

4

     

Bodó jauari

            

3.85

1

1.64

6

     

Bodó luminol

            

3.85

1

0.55

2

     

Bodó onça

      

4.76

1

    

7.69

2

5.48

20

    

4

Bodó panda

              

0.27

1

     

Bodó pedra

              

0.27

1

     

Bodó percote

            

3.85

1

1.92

7

     

Bodó seda

      

4.76

1

    

7.69

2

10.14

37

    

4

Bodó

              

1.92

7

    

2

Bodó tui

              

0.27

1

     

Bodó zebra

              

0.82

3

     

Borboleta

      

38.10

8

  

2.27

2

3.85

1

8.49

31

13.85

9

5.88

1

27

Borboleta branca

              

0.27

1

     

Borboleta rajada

              

0.27

1

     

Cardinal

      

19.05

4

  

21.6

19

  

13.42

49

30.77

20

17.65

3

30

Coridora

              

1.10

4

    

1

Farowela

                    

1

Itui cavalo

              

0.27

1

     

Lápis

              

5.48

20

4.62

3

5.88

1

22

Marginata

      

4.76

1

  

1.14

1

  

2.19

8

3.08

2

  

8

Neon

          

3.41

3

  

4.11

15

3.08

2

  

8

Peixe agulha

              

0.55

2

     

Rodostomo

      

14.29

3

  

11.4

10

  

8.22

30

12.31

8

11.76

2

23

Rosacéu

      

4.76

1

  

9.09

8

  

8.77

32

9.23

6

29.41

5

17

Uricaia

                    

1

Xadrez

          

2.27

2

3.85

1

6.58

24

7.69

5

5.88

1

19

Total

100

9

100

1

100

5

100

21

100

50

100

88

100

26

100

365

100

65

100

17

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