Fluviphylax

Fluviphylax is a genus of tiny cyprinodontiform fish native to the Amazon Basin, Orinoco Basin, and Oyapock Basin in South America.

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GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassTeleostei
OrderCyprinodontiformes
FamilyPoeciliidae

Habitatfreshwater

Observations recorded625

Vissen Fluviphylax is een geslacht van straalvinnige vissen uit de familie van de levendbarende tandkarpers (Poeciliidae). Soorten Fluviphylax obscurus Costa, 1996 Fluviphylax palikur Costa & Le Bail, 1999 Fluviphylax pygmaeus (Myers & Carvalho, 1955) Fluviphylax simplex Costa, 1996 Fluviphylax zonatus Costa, 1996

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 30
With media: 2
Family: Poeciliidae
Collections: AUM, UF, MCZ, USNM, CAS, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA)
Recorded in: Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Brasil, Colombie, Colombia

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Image: Fluviphylax sp.jpg

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Commons category: Fluviphylax
taxon name: Fluviphylax
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Fluviphylax

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Fluviphylax is a genus of tiny cyprinodontiform fish native to the Amazon Basin, Orinoco Basin, and Oyapock Basin in South America.

It is the only member of the family Fluviphylacidae. Members of this genus are known as American lampeyes. Until recently, it was placed within the Poecilidae (namely within the otherwise-African clade Procatopodinae, which is now also treated as its own family), but more recent studies have found it to be the sister group to the clade consisting of Poecilidae and Anablepidae.

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