Ammocryptocharax elegans

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Ammocryptocharax elegans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Crenuchidae
Genus: Ammocryptocharax
Species:
A. elegans
Binomial name
Ammocryptocharax elegans

Ammocryptocharax elegans is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Crenuchidae, the South American darters. This species was described in 1976 by Stanley Howard Weitzman and Robert H. Kanazawa, [3] who proposed the new genus Ammocryptocharax for this species, designating this species as the type species of that genus. [4] This species is found in the catchment of the Amazon in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru and in the upper Orinoco in Venezuela and Colombia. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Salvador, G.N. (2023). "Ammocryptocharax elegans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2023 e.T162748277A162748298. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T162748277A162748298.en . Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  2. ↑ SH Weitzman; RH Kanazawa (1976). "Ammocryptocharax elegans, a new genus and species of riffle-inhabiting characoid fish (Teleostei: Characidae) from South America". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 89: 325–346.
  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Ammocryptocharax". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Characidiinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 8 June 2025.


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