Mustura Tigrina

📖 Overview

Mustura Tigrina (Mustura tigrina), first described by Lokeshwor & Vishwanath, 2012 is a small fish. Adults typically reach 7.40 cm in maximum length. It inhabits freshwater systems including rivers, streams, and lakes. It occurs in Tropical waters. It is broadly omnivorous, taking invertebrates, plant matter, and detritus.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

This species is characterized by the following: two halves of the air bladder capsules are widely separated and connected by a manubrium; the free posterior chamber is well-developed, not encapsulated and more or less conical; lateral line complete; saddles on the back 5-6; supraorbital pores 12; caudal-fin lobes equal; body depth 17.0-19.0% SL; dorsal head length 19.0-20.0 % SL; pectoral-fin length 18-19 % SL; snout 46.9-50.6 % HL; basicaudal bar complete, prominent, dark-brown bars with black spots at top and bottom of the base. In males, the first branched pectoral-fin ray is rigid, about twice the width of the second, branched once, no membrane between branches except near the tip; the second branched ray is longest, branched once; other branched rays are branched three times; a wide, thickened unculiferous pad on the dorsal surface of pectoral-fin rays, covered by small conical tubercles, prominent on the inner edges of first branched ray, with similar tubercles of lesser number in other branched rays; suborbital flap, with distal tip broadly cut square, with small tubercles along its anterior and posterior edges; these modifications are absent in females .Cross section: oval.

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Mustura Tigrina is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

🥚 Reproduction

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Freshwater; demersal. Tropical

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

🐠 Related Species

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