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Anostomus (Headstander)

Synonyms: Anostoma; Mormyrorhynchus; Mormyrynchus

Wikipedia Abstract

Anostomus is a small genus of fish in the family Anostomidae found in South America. They are found in the Orinoco and Amazon Basin, as well as various rivers in the Guianas. The genus currently contains five described species. Petulanos was until recently included here.
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Species

Anostomus anostomus (Striped headstander)
Anostomus brevior (Headstander)
Anostomus longus
Anostomus ternetzi (Ternetz's headstander)
Anostomus ucayalensis

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0