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Sternarchorhynchus caboclo de, Santana & Nogueira, 2006

Cabocolo tube-snouted ghost knifefish
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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Type locality, Roraima: Rio Branco basin, Rio Mucajaí, below Cachoeira Paredão 2, INPA 22894 (holotype of Sternarchorhynchus caboclo, 22.5 cm TL, male) (Ref. 84053). Known only from the Rio Mucajaí in Roraima (Ref. 56957).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: de Santana, C.D. and A. Nogueira, 2006
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Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Gymnotiformes (Knifefishes) > Apteronotidae (Ghost knifefishes) > Apteronotinae
Etymology: Sternarchorhynchus: Greek, sternon = sternon, + Greek, archos = anus + Greek, rhyngchos = snout (Ref. 45335);  caboclo: Named for the caboclos (in Brazilian Portuguese means a person of mixed Brazilian Indian and European or African ancestry) of north of Brazil, whose field knowledge has contributed greatly to an understanding of Neotropical ichthyofauna..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic.   Tropical

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