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Potamopyrgus is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Tateidae.
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Copelatus amazonicus is a species of diving beetle. It is part of the genus Copelatus in the subfamily Copelatinae of the family Dytiscidae. It was described by Régimbart in 1889.
Eumathes is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.
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Eumathes cuprascens is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1874. It is known from Nicaragua and Panama.
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Tulcus amazonicus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by James Thomson in 1860. It is known from Ecuador and Brazil.
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