Mustura Tuivaiensis
📖 Overview
Mustura Tuivaiensis (Mustura tuivaiensis), first described by Lokeshwor, Vishwanath & Shanta, 2012 is a tiny fish. Adults typically reach 4.60 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 distinguished by the following characters: two halves of the air bladder capsules connected by a manubrium, with posterior chamber free, well-developed, not encapsulated and more or less oval. In males, the first branched pectoral-fin ray is falcate, about twice the thickness of the second, branched once only near the tip and without a membrane between the branches except near the tip; other branched rays are also branched only once; branched ray 3-4 are the longest; a thick unculiferous pad on the dorsal surface of pectoral-fin rays, all rays and pads are covered dorsally by small, conspicuous, densely-set conical tubercles; suborbital flap spoon-shaped, with small tubercles on its posterior edge; no such modifications of pectoral fin in females Cross section: oval.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Mustura Tuivaiensis is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Freshwater; demersal. Tropical
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
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