Leptagoniates
Leptagoniates | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Characidae |
Genus: | Leptagoniates Boulenger, 1887 |
Species: | L. steindachneri
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Binomial name | |
Leptagoniates steindachneri Boulenger, 1887
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Leptagoniates is a genus of fish in the family Characidae. It contains the single species Leptagoniates steindachneri,[1] which is found in the Amazon River basin in South America.
Another species, L. pi, has traditionally been placed in this genus, but it was moved to Protocheirodon in 2016.[1]
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Categories:
- Characidae
- Fish of South America
- Monotypic ray-finned fish genera
- Characiformes genera
- Fish described in 1887
- Characiformes stubs