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Sternarchorhynchus hagedornae de, Santana & Vari, 2010

Hagedorn’s tube-snouted ghost knifefish
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Peru country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality, Madre de Dios: Manu Biosphere Reserve, Quebrada Pachija, tributary emptying into Río Manu 3 km upstream of Pakitza, MUSM 30534 (holotype of Sternarchorhynchus hagedornae, 24.9 cm TL, male). Collected specimens from Manu Biosphere Reserve, in the upper Río Madeira basin in south-eastern Peru (Ref. 84053).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: de Santana, C. D. and R.P. Vari, 2010
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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);  hagedornae: Named for Mary Hagedorn of the Smithsonian Institution..
  More on authors: de, Santana & Vari.

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

Freshwater; benthopelagic.   Tropical

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