Least ConcernCrab-eating Raccoon
Procyon cancrivorus
Bony fish · Cyprinodontiformes · Anablepidae
Anableps anableps
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
The four-eyed fish is a surface-dwelling fish of up to 30 cm that lives in estuaries and mudflats in northern South America. It does not have four eyes: each eye is divided horizontally by a band of tissue, so that the upper half looks into the air and the lower half into the water, and the animal swims with the dividing line exactly at the surface, seeing what happens above and below at the same time. It hunts insects, small crustaceans and fish, and also swallows mud to make use of the diatoms in it. It is live-bearing, and the young are already some 5 cm long at birth.
Weight
up to 400 g
Size
up to 30 cm
Diet
Omnivore
Combines animal and plant food depending on availability.
Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Anableps anableps
The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.
Parks and dive sites where this species has been documented.
Other species in the catalogue with the most in common with Four-eyed Fish — same habitat, park, country, tags or family.
Based on what we already know about four-eyed fish.
