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Jack Dempsey (fish)

Rocio octofasciata

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Description:

Photo take in a Cenote at -20 ft this is some of the few fish living in this fresh water isolate sinkholes in the middle of the jungle.This fish can grow up to 30 cm long beautiful blue-green bright spots.

Habitat:

The fish is native to Mexico and Honduras, where it is found in slow-moving waters, such as swampy areas with warm, murky water, weedy, mud- and sand-bottomed canals, drainage ditches, and rivers. This one was found in a isolated Sinkhole.

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Jack Dempsey (fish)

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Mexico Horn of Plenty
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Yucatan Peninsula Biodiversity

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PublishedMarch 6, 2013

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