Danio margaritatus bodies in the Inle drainage, the water is slightly alkaline. The habitat is heavily vegetated with Hydrocharitaceae similar to "Elodea" (water weed). The celestial pearl danio shares its habitat with a very few fish species: a "Microrasbora" similar to "M. rubescens", a rosy loach ("Yunnanilus", possibly a new species, and the dwarf snakehead "Channa harcourtbutleri". The latter species presumably is the only known significant predator of "D. margaritatus". The species is locally fished for food to some extent; it is dried and bought as a protein source by poor people. A can of some 500 "D. margaritatus" sold for food
Bucca (mythological creature) Bucca (mythological creature) Bucca is a male sea-spirit in Cornish folklore - a merman- that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms. The mythological creature is a type of water spirit likely related to the Púca from Irish and Welsh folklore and the female mari-morgans - a type of mermaid from Welsh and Breton mythology. Rev W. S. Lach-Szyrma, one 19th-century writer on Cornish antiquities, suggested the Bucca had originally been an ancient pagan deity of the sea such as Irish Nechtan or British Nodens, though his claims are mainly conjecture.. Folklore however records votive food offerings