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Cyprinodontidae
Mediterranean toothcarp
Aphanius fasciatus
Habitat decides whether male tails turn yellow or orange
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Africa
- Europe
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Africa
Fusiform
SmallMediterranean toothcarp is a freshwater fish from Europe. It inhabits estuaries and brackish water. The largest recorded length is 6.8 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinodontidae
- Genus
- Aphanius
- Maximum length
- 6.8 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Europe: France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Greece and Montenegro. Mediterranean basin: North Africa from Egypt to eastern Algeria, sometimes in landlocked basins; through the Suez Canal into the Bitter Lakes, Egypt (Ref. 3788 ). Asia: Turkey.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
