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Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Cichlidae Genus: Pterophyllum
Heckel, 1840 Binomial name Pterophyllum altum
(Pellegrin, 1903) Pterophyllum leopoldi
(Gosse, 1963) Pterophyllum scalare
(Lichtenstein, 1823)

Freshwater angelfish are cichlids that originate around the Amazon River basin with a striking, compressed body shape and long extended dorsal and anal fins. The fish are often taller than they are long. There are three recognized species, all belonging to the genus Pterophyllum.

For aquarium breeding, the angelfish is a bad parent compared to many other cichlids, and quite often eats its young. The eggs are deposited on a bare rock, root or large leaf of some water plant, and the young are cared for by both parents.

However, when the breeding attempt is successful the parents keep close watch on the eggs until they become free swimming. Once they begin swimming the parents will clean them by sucking them into their mouths and spitting them out. Fry can be fed baby brine shrimp; frozen or fresh.

Angelfish inhabit slow waters in the Amazon region. Its shape allows it good protectio ...

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