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Rheophile

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A rheophile prefers to live in fast moving water.

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Insects

  • Many aquatic insects living in riffles require current to survive.
  • Epeorus sylvicola, a rheophilic mayfly species (Ephemeroptera).

    • Birds

  • American dipper, Cinclus mexicanus, family Cinclidae.
  • Harlequin duck, Histrionicus histrionicus

    • Fish

    A very large number of rheophilic fish species are known and include members of at least 419 genera in 60 families. Examples include:

  • Many species in the family Balitoridae, also known as the hill stream loaches.
  • Many species in the family Loricariidae from South and Central America
  • Many Chiloglanis species, which are freshwater catfish from Africa
  • The family Gyrinocheilidae.
  • Rheophilic cichlid genera/species.
  • The Lamena group in the genus Paretroplus from Madagascar.
  • Oxylapia polli from Madagascar.
  • Retroculus species from the Amazon Basin and rivers in the Guianas in South America.
  • Steatocranus species from the Congo River Basin in Africa.
  • Teleocichla species from the Amazon Basin in South America.
  • Teleogramma species from the Congo River Basin in Africa.
  • Ossubtus xinguense from the Xingu River in Brazil
  • Tometes species from tropical South America
  • The Danube streber (Zingel streber), family Percidae.
  • Leuciscus idus, a freshwater cyprinid

    • Molluscs

  • Ancylus fluviatilis
  • Aylacostoma species
  • Lymnaea ovata
  • Bithynia tentaculata

    • Amphibians

  • Neurergus strauchii, a newt from Turkey
  • Pachytriton labiatus, a newt from China

    • References

    Rheophile Wikipedia
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