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Arsik is an Indonesian spicy fish dish of the Batak Toba and Mandailing people of North Sumatra, usually using the common carp (known in Indonesia as ikan mas or gold fish). [1] Distinctively Batak elements of the dish are the use of torch ginger fruit (asam cikala), and andaliman (similar to Sichuan pepper). [1]
Betta miniopinna is stenotopic to densely forested peat swamps and associated streams near Tanjong Bintan on Pulau Bintan (in which it is sympatric to B. spilotogena), characterized by an acidic blackwater habitat (of a pH of 4.9–6) formed as a consequence of the abundant decay of humic material and the effusion of tannins from decaying leaves.
The adults can grow up to a maximum size of 15 centimetres (5.9 in). [1] Juveniles and adults have different coloration. Adults of this species are grayish black.
H. buttikoferi is a large cichlid, capable of growing up to 30.8 cm (12.1 in) in standard length.Body is typically yellow or white with black stripes which can vary from very light to near black depending on the mood of the fish.
The dorab wolf-herring (Chirocentrus dorab) is a fish species from the genus Chirocentrus of the family Chirocentridae. [3] It is a coastal fish, silvery below and bright blue above.
Poecilia sphenops, called the Mexican molly or simply the molly, is a species of poeciliid fish from Central America. It was once understood as a widespread species with numerous local variants ranging from Mexico to Venezuela, but these variants are today considered distinct species belonging to the P. sphenops complex and P. sphenops itself as being native to Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
The dottybacks are a family, Pseudochromidae, of fishes which were formerly classified in the order Perciformes, but this has been revised and the family is regarded as of uncertain affinities, or incertae sedis within the Ovalentaria, a clade within the Percomorpha.
Banded archerfish, illustrated in Bleeker's 1878 Atlas Ichthyologique. Toxotes jaculatrix were originally described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1767.Since then, several synonyms (such as Labrus jaculatrix and Sciaena jaculatrix) and misspellings (Toxotes jaculator) have come into use.