Brown hoplo
Hoplosternum littorale
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- National record
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Recorded profile
- habitat summary
- Occur in a variety of freshwater habitats including muddy bottom and slow moving rivers, streams, side channels, ponds, marshes, and man-made waterways such as ditches and borrow pits; larvae and juveniles inhabit shallow water areas with lots of vegetation; adults prefer foraging in deeper, open water areas; gulps air, and tolerant of both low oxygen and high hydrogen-sulfide levels.
- diet
- Feeding Habits: Primarily feeds on benthic invertebrates and detritus.
- preferred bait
- Not recorded
- preferred lures
- Not recorded
- techniques
- Not recorded
- peak months
- Not recorded
States with a source record
Source evidence by state
- Florida — Brown Hoplo · enriched: myfwc.com · www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu · myfwc.com
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