The Life of Animals | Discus | Discus belong to the genus Symphysodon, the which currently includes three species: The common disc (Symphysodon aequifasciatus), the Heckel disc (Symphysodon disc), and a new species of the which has been named Symphysodon tarzoo. However, a Further investigation published in August 2007 suggested the genus That held the three species: S. aequifasciatus (the green disc), S. haraldi (the blue / brown / common disc) and S. disc (the disc Heckel) Like cichlids from the genus Pterophyllum, all Symphysodon species have a laterally compressed body shape.
however Bred in captivity the larvae will from growing niche to live off Their parents secretion for up to 2 weeks Symphysodon species inhabit the margins of floodplain lakes and rivers in the Amazon Basin of Lowland Amazonia where it is part of the highly diverse neotropical fish fauna. The three species of Symphysodon have different geographic distributions. S. aequifasciatus Occurs in the Rio Solimões, Rio Amazonas and the Río Putumayo-Ica in Brazil, Columbia and Peru.
