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Petersius
Sign in to savePetersius is monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alestidae, the African tetras. The only species in the genus is Petersius conserialis. It is endemic to the Rufiji and Ruvu Rivers in Tanzania. Its natural habitat is rivers.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCharaciformes
- FamilyAlestidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Alestidae
- Collections
- CAS, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM, NHMUK, ANSP, NRM
- Recorded in
- Cameroon, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Nigeria, Dr Congo, Angola, Zambia
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Petersius is monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alestidae, the African tetras. The only species in the genus is Petersius conserialis. It is endemic to the Rufiji and Ruvu Rivers in Tanzania. Its natural habitat is rivers.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petersius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.