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Brazil country information
Common names:
Sarapó
Occurrence:
native
Salinity:
freshwater
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Uses:
no uses
Comments:
Occurs only in rio Madeira; from its lower reaches below its major series of falls and rapids as far downstream as a site near the town of Calamã, Rondônia (near the mouth of the rio Machado), and from sites above the major series of falls, along
most of the length of the rio Guaporé (Ref. 116763).
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Country Information:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
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Occurrences:
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Main Ref:
Crampton, W.G.R., C.D. de Santana, J.C. Waddell and N.R. Lovejoy, 2017
National Database:
Teleostei (teleosts) > Gymnotiformes (Knifefishes) > Hypopomidae (Bluntnose knifefishes)
Etymology: Brachyhypopomus:Greek, brachys, eia = short + Greek, hypo = under + Greek, poma, -atos = cover (Ref. 45335); cunia:Named for the its type locality, lago Cuniã, a floodplain lake of the lower rio Madeira inside the Reserva Extrativista do lago do Cuniã. A noun in apposition..
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