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Eigenmannia virescens (Green knifefish; Glass knifefish; Glass Knife Fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Glass Knifefish (Eigenmannia virescens) is a weakly electric freshwater fish found across South America. It is marketed as an aquarium fish.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Mamore - Madre de Dios Piedmont Bolivia, Brazil, Peru Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    
Orinoco Llanos Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Protected Areas

Predators

Acestrorhynchus lacustris[1]
Serrasalmus brandtii (White piranha)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diet composition and food overlap of Acestrorhynchus britskii and A. lacustris (Characiformes: Acestrorhynchidae) from Sobradinho reservoir, São Francisco river, Bahia State, Aline Alves Ferreira da Rocha, Natália Carneiro Lacerda dos Santos, Gabriela de Araújo Pinto, Tatiane do Nascimento Medeiros and William Severi, Maringá, v. 33, n. 4, p. 407-415, 2011
♦ 2Dieta da pirambeba Serrasalmus brandtii Reinhardt (Teleostei, Characidae) em quatro lagoas marginais do rio São Francisco, Brasil, Paulo dos Santos Pompeu, Revta bras. Zool. 16 (Supl. 2): 19 - 26, 1999
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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