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Cichlidae
Fat Oscar
Astronotus crassipinnis
Cichlid in the Amazon Basin
- Tropical
- Upper river
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- South America
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
MediumFat Oscar is known from South America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cichlids and Allies
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Genus
- Astronotus
- Maximum length
- 24 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- South America: southern parts of the Amazon (upper Madeira River) and the upper Paraguay basins; introduce elsewhere.
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