Uaru

Taxobox
name = "Uaru"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Cichlidae
genus = "Uaru"
genus_authority = Heckel, 1840
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"Uaru amphiacanthoides"
*"Uaru fernandezyepezi"

"Uaru" is a small genus of cichlid fishes with only two species. The name "Uaru" comes from the Amazon word for toad [cite web |url=http://www.fishbase.org/Eschmeyer/GeneraSummary.cfm?ID=Uaru |title="Uaru", Genus Summary, Catalog of Fishes |author=W.N. Eschmeyer |date=2008 |work=Catalog of fishes |publisher=Fishbase.org ] . The genus occurs in blackwater and whitewater habitats in the upper Orinoco and Rio Negro rivers of the Amazon basin cite book |last=Staeck |first=Wolfgang |coauthors=Linke, Horst |title=American Cichlids II: Large Cichlids: A Handbook for Their Identification, Care, and Breeding |year=1995 |publisher=Tetra Press |location=Germany |isbn=156465169X ] . "U. amphiacanthoides" are frequently available as a food fish in Brazil cite web|url=http://filaman.uni-kiel.de/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=11187|title="Uaru amphiacanthoides", Uaru|author=Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors.|publisher=FishBase|accessdate=2008-06-16] and are popular with cichlid-keeping aquarists cite book |last=Loiselle |first=Paul V. |coauthors= |title=The Cichlid Aquarium |year=1995 |publisher=Tetra Press |location=Germany |isbn=1-56465-146-0] .

ee also

* Cichlid
* List of freshwater aquarium fish species

References