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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Characidae |
| Genus: | Charax |
| Species: | C. gibbosus |
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| Charax gibbosus | |
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The glass headstander, (Charax gibbosus), is a species of fish [2] in the genus Charax . commonly known as the transparent tetra.
The glass headstander can grow up to 14 cm long and weigh up to 30 grams. [3]
Eucynopotamus gibbosus [4] and Salmo gibbosus [5] are taxonomic synonyms for Charx gibbosus [6] [5]
The glass headstander mainly lives in South America. [3]
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The European eel is a species of eel, a snake-like, catadromous fish. They are normally around 60–80 cm (2.0–2.6 ft) and rarely reach more than 1 m, but can reach a length of up to 1.5 m in exceptional cases.
The brown trout is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range.
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Always inhabiting the waters; are swift in their motion and voracious in their appetites. They breathe by means of gills, which are generally united by a bony arch; swim by means of radiate fins, and are mostly covered over with cartilaginous scales. Besides the parts they have in common with other animals, they are furnished with a nictitant membrane, and most of them with a swim-bladder, by the contraction or dilatation of which, they can raise or sink themselves in their element at pleasure.
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