Fishes: Pachypanchax Playfairii

Monday, 23 July 2012

Pachypanchax Playfairii

Pachypanchax playfairii is the only species of freshwater fish endemic to the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean directly east of Tanzania. An egg scatterer, Playfair's Panchax breeds amongst floating water plants. This species is unusual in that the scales of the male become lifted during the breeding season, giving the skin a rough appearance. Like the Common Lyrefish (Aphyosemion australe), Playfair's Panchax is a type of killifish and, as such, rarely lives to more than three years old.Biological classification, or scientific classification in biology, is a method to group and categorize organisms into groups such as genus or species. These groups are known as taxa (singular: taxon). Biological classification is part of scientific taxonomy.