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Ctenoluciidae

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Ctenoluciidae

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Ctenoluciidae the pike-characins, is a small family of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Characiformes, the characin-like fishes. The fishes in this genus are found in Panama and South America.

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Vinony's link graph records 13 inbound references to Ctenoluciidae, and connects out to Characiformes, Animalia and Latin.

Vinony files it under Characiformes families, Characoidei and Ctenoluciidae.

Vinony links it to 24 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

pike-characids

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderCharaciformes
  5. FamilyCtenoluciidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded6,792

魣脂鯉科,又稱梭子脂鯉科,為輻鰭魚綱脂鯉目的其一科。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
4
Family
Ctenoluciidae
Collections
MPEG
Recorded in
Brasil

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
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Commons category
Ctenoluciidae
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family
taxon name
Ctenoluciidae
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Category:Ctenoluciidae
taxon common name
gjeddekarpelaksfamilien
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Encyclopedic overview

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Ctenoluciidae the pike-characins, is a small family of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Characiformes, the characin-like fishes. The fishes in this genus are found in Panama and South America.

The name of the family is derived from its type genus, Ctenolucius, and combines cteno, from the Greek ktenós meaning "comb", and the Latin lucius, which means "pike".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ctenoluciidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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