Xenurobrycon polyancistrus
| Xenurobrycon polyancistrus | |
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| Phylum: | Chordata
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| Species: | X. polyancistrus
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| Xenurobrycon polyancistrus S. H. Weitzman, 1987
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Xenurobrycon polyancistrus is a species of characid fish of the subfamily Glandulocaudinae. A freshwater fish, it is the smallest species of characin in its family and order. Adults can grow up to 1.4 cm long.[1]
Distribution[]
Found in the gallery forest pools adjacent to rivers in savannah areas of the and drainages in Bolivia.[2]
It is also found in the Río Madre de Dios basin in Peru.
Discovery[]
It was found among a collection of fishes from Bolivia sent by Gerard Loubens of the Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Laboratoire d'Ichthyologie de l'Universite de Trinidad, Estado Beni, Bolivia.
References[]
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Xenurobrycon polyancistrus" in FishBase. August 2014 version.
- ^ "A new species of Xenurobrycon Nannostomus (Teleostei: Characidae) from the Río Mamore basin of Bolivia by Stanley H. Weitzman Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100:112-120 (1987)i".
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Categories:
- Characidae
- Fish of Bolivia
- Freshwater fish of Peru
- Fish of the Amazon basin
- Taxa named by Stanley Howard Weitzman
- Fish described in 1987
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