Rheophile

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A rheophile is an organism that prefers to live in fast moving water.

Contents 1 Examples of rheophilic animals 1.1 Insecta 1.2 Birds 1.3 Fish 1.4 Mollusca

[edit] Examples of rheophilic animals

[edit] Insecta

• Epeorus sylvicola, a rheophilic mayfly species (Ephemeroptera).

[edit] Birds

• American Dipper, Cinclus mexicanus, family Cinclidae.

[edit] Fish

• The fish family Balitoridae, also known as the hill stream loaches.

• Rheophilic cichlid genera/species.
  • Oxylapia polli a Madagascan cichlid.
  • Paretroplus nourissati a Madagascan cichlid.
  • Steatocranus species, freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae.
  • Teleocichla species, freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae.
  • Teleogramma species, freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae.

• Chiloglanis neumanni a freshwater catfish from Lake Malawi.
• The Danube streber Zingel streber, family Percidae.
• Leuciscus idus, a freshwater cyprinid

[edit] Mollusca

• Ancylus fluviatilis
• Lymnaea ovata
• Bithynia tentaculata