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Brazil country information
Common names:
[No common name]
Occurrence:
native
Salinity:
freshwater
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Uses:
live export: yes;
Comments:
Type locality, Bahia, Cândido Sales, rio Pardo on road BR116, MCP 37570 (holotype of Astyanax pelecus, 5.64 cm SL). Found in the upper rio Pardo drainage, at Cândido Sales, a coastal drainage in the state of Bahia, eastern Brazil (Ref. 57404).
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Country Information:
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Occurrences:
OccurrencesPoint map
Main Ref:
Bertaco, V.A. and C.A.S. de Lucena, 2006
National Database:
Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
> Characiformes (Characins) > Characidae (Characins; tetras) > Stethaprioninae
Etymology: Deuterodon:Greek, deuter = second + Greek, odous = teeth (Ref. 45335); pelecus:From the Greek pelekus, meaning axe, in allusion to the form of the dark pigmentation resulting from the junction of the humeral spot with the black midlateral stripe..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; Água doce bentopelágico; intervalo de profundidade 0 - 1 m (Ref. 57404). Tropical
Distribuição
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