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| Main Ref: | Sanchez, J., 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Country: | Peru | ||||||||||||
| Locality: | Cocha Zapote | ||||||||||||
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| min 47,000 | (g) | (cm) | Ref: Greenwood, P.H. and M.V.H. Wilson, 1998 | ||||||||||
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| Spawning Cycles: | (1/y) | Ref: | |||||||||||
| Comments: | Parents build a nesting area among submerged plants. The developing eggs and the young are guarded by the parents. The fry tend to cluster around the parent's head, attracted by a pheromone secreted from glands in the skin of the parents head. | ||||||||||||
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