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Sternopygus
Sign in to saveSternopygus is a genus of glass knifefishes found in tropical and subtropical South America (south to the Río de la Plata Basin), and Panama. It is the only extant member of the subfamily Sternopyginae, with the related fossil genus Humboldtichthys also known from Bolivia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderGymnotiformes
- FamilySternopygidae
Sternopygus is een geslacht van straalvinnige vissen uit de familie van de Amerikaanse mesalen (Sternopygidae).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 141
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Sternopygidae
- Collections
- CUMV, ANSP, USNM, AUM
- Recorded in
- Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Suriname, Leoncio Prado
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sternopygidae
- Image
- Sternopygus macrurus by Castelnau.jpg
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Sternopygus is a genus of glass knifefishes found in tropical and subtropical South America (south to the Río de la Plata Basin), and Panama. It is the only extant member of the subfamily Sternopyginae, with the related fossil genus Humboldtichthys also known from Bolivia.
They inhabit a wide range of freshwater habitats, from fast-flowing rivers to essentially static waters in floodplains, and shallow habitats to the bottom of deep rivers. S. macrurus will even visit brackish mangroves to feed.
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