Rheophile
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A rheophile is an organism that prefers to live in fast moving water.
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[edit] Examples of rheophilic animals
[edit] Insects
- Many aquatic insects living in riffles require current to survive.[1]
- Epeorus sylvicola, a rheophilic mayfly species (Ephemeroptera).
[edit] Birds
- American Dipper, Cinclus mexicanus, family Cinclidae.
[edit] Fish
- The fish family Balitoridae, also known as the hill stream loaches.
- The fish family Loricariidae.
- The fish family Gyrinocheilidae.
- Rheophilic cichlid genera/species.
- The Lamena group in the genus Paretroplus from Madagascar.
- Oxylapia polli from Madagascar.
- 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.
- Chiloglanis neumanni a freshwater catfish from Lake Malawi.
- The Danube streber (Zingel streber), family Percidae.
- Leuciscus idus, a freshwater cyprinid
[edit] Molluscs
[edit] Amphibians
- Neurergus strauchii, a newt from Turkey
- Pachytriton labiatus, a newt from China
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hynes, H.B.N. 1970. Ecology of Running Waters. Originally published in Toronto by University of Toronto Press, 555p.
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