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Sternarchogiton
Sign in to saveSternarchogiton is a genus of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae, all living in the main channel of large rivers in the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderGymnotiformes
- FamilyApteronotidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 31
- Family
- Apteronotidae
- Collections
- UMMZ, CUMV, CAS, ANSP, UF, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA)
- Recorded in
- Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- ghost knifefish
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- taxon name
- Sternarchogiton
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- genus
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- Category:Sternarchogiton
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Sternarchogiton is a genus of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae, all living in the main channel of large rivers in the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America.
They have a blunt snout and depending on the exact species reach up to in total length. The adult males of S. nattereri have teeth on the outside of the jaw, believed to be used in fights with other males, and it was formerly placed in its own genus because of this unique feature. Sternarchogiton are distinguished from other apteronotid genera by details of the skull and the broad descending blades of the pterygiophores in the anal fin. They are related to the genera Adontosternarchus and Porotergus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sternarchogiton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.