Monocirrhus
Monocirrhus polyacanthus, also known as the Amazon leaffish is a species of fish belonging to the Polycentridae family. It inhabits the often brackish waters, both clear and turbid, of Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela in the Amazon River basin. It reaches a maximum length of 8.0 centimetres (3.1 in). They are extremely specialized ambush predators that hunt by drifting towards prey animals (almost invariably another fish) and quickly swallowing them when they get close enough. These...
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 90020.