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Hypopygus lepturus (Slendertail knifefish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hypopygus lepturus is a species of bluntnose knifefish and is commonly found in Northern South America. It is part of the family Hypopomidae and is occasionally kept as an aquarium fish. It lives in freshwater and grows up to 10 centimeters long.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Orinoco Guiana Shield Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve State Sustainable Development Reserve VI 3260792 Amazonas, Brazil  
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park II 4006523 Bolivia  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Yasuni Biosphere Reserve 4156313 Ecuador  

External References

Citations

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