Vintage Boots: Abramites

Thursday 16 August 2012

Abramites

Abramites also called the marbled headstander or the high-backed headstander, is a member of the family Anostomidae of the orderCharaciformes. Under normal fish classifying rules you would gather from its upturned mouth and long streamlined body that the marbled headstander is a surface dweller. In reality marbled headstanders, like all headstanders, inhabit the middle and lower portions of the aquarium.^[2] In the wild, head standers are often found face down, tail up in narrow vertical rocky fissures.^[3]

The marbled headstander generally inhabits streams and rivers of the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.^[4] Headstanders in general inhabit very fast flowing waters in rocky stretches of river.^[3]