Animal adaptation

Blue Catfish

INFOGRAPHIC

By Dian Zaputra

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Habitat

The blue catfish originaly found in major rivers of the Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi river basins. Their range extends in south through Texas, Mexico and towards northern Guatemala.

Diet

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They eat of small fish, clams, crayfish, frogs, mussels and insects. Large blue catfish often feeds exclusively on other fishes.

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Predator

it has no predator as it is as the apex or top predator in the ecosystem

Blue Catfish

INFOGRAPHIC

By Dian Zaputra

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Adaptation

Morphological :Their barbels or whiskers give these fish a strong sense of odour, which plays a key role in looking for food. Blue catfish have a forked tail which looks very similar to Channel catfish.

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Behavior

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Blue catfish are more migratory than other catfish species and often travel long distances. They also adjust to changes in water temperature and swim to warmer waters during the winter and cooler waters during the summer. Although blue catfish prefer freshwater, they are sometimes found in saltier estuaries.

Morphological:their dorsal fin and posterior fins have spines,

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Physiological

Sources

It has an accessory air-breathing organs that help them to live in habitat that has periods of water deprivation. beside, some of these fishes have been shown to possess-special physiological and biochemical adaptive mechanisms to tolerate a wide range of adverse physico-chemical conditions in the ambient environment.

• https://www.animalspot.net/blue-catfish.html
• http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Ictalurus_furcatus/
• https://www.alr-journal.org/articles/alr/abs/1996/05/alr96hs10/alr96hs10.html