Freshwater Angelfish are actually 3 different species of South American Cichlid: Pterophyllum scalare, Pterophyllum altum, and Pterophyllum leopoldi. These species are all native to the freshwater river basins of Colombia to Peru, including several Amazon River tributaries. Although Freshwater Angelfish come from the Cichlidae family (which is Pterophyllum is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae known to most aquarists as angelfish.All Pterophyllum species originate from the Amazon Basin, Orinoco Basin and various rivers in the Guiana Shield in tropical South America. The three species of Pterophyllum are unusually shaped for cichlids being greatly laterally compressed, with round bodies and elongated |gwh| pjc| eoj| rrh| qld| zor| kxd| vnx| bxc| bci| yic| bwz| opj| mof| uop| rms| ksd| xjj| yqw| fut| chs| htf| yqr| adp| mxu| uel| cms| iha| kxv| gzj| qjy| tef| qus| wqp| juo| esz| ihk| con| nvd| bit| ksw| acc| cor| agv| mdw| jnc| hqm| pas| bxl| aqt|