Carnegiella myersi FERNANDEZ-YEPES, 1950
Pygmy Hatchetfish
January 19th, 2015 — 1:38am
The smallest and most delicate of the nominal hatchetfishes. The rounded keel is shallower than related species, giving this fish a distinctive elongate profile.
The family Gasteropelecidae is separated from other Characiformes by the following combination of characters: front…
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L146, L232, LDA030, Bola Pleco
June 23rd, 2013 — 1:26pm
This species has had several L-numbers assigned to it, with L146 collected from an unspecified locality in Colombia and L232 from the Río Putomayo/Içá.
It’s exported for the aquarium trade under a number of different generic names including Hemiancistrus, Sophiancistrus and Peckoltichthys.
Following Armbruster (2008) it can be to…
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Loreto Tetra
March 13th, 2012 — 1:21pm
The most recent diagnosis appears to be that of Géry (1977), in which it was separated from other members of the group by the following combination of characters: dorsal-fin insertion at or slightly anterior to mid-body; caudal-fin brick red to orange-red; body depth fits less than 3.6 times in SL; head length fits 3.5-4.0 times in SL; caudal peduncle length u…
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Elegant Cory
March 13th, 2012 — 1:19pm
This species is popular in the aquarium hobby and unlike the majority of congeners tends to spend a fair amount of time away from the substrate, often forming groups in midwater.
It has been placed in the unofficial ‘C. elegans group’, which contains a number of species exhibiting similarities in morphology and colour pattern, some of which remain unidentified in scientific terms.
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