Tarumania walkerae
Sign in to saveTarumania is a genus of freshwater fish described in 2017. It contains a single species, Tarumania walkerae, and constitutes the only genus in the family Tarumaniidae. T. walkerae is a predatory species that hunts among the leaf litter on the bottom of flooded forests in the Rio Negro drainage basin.
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SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCharaciformes
- FamilyTarumaniidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Tarumania is a genus of freshwater fish described in 2017. It contains a single species, Tarumania walkerae, and constitutes the only genus in the family Tarumaniidae. T. walkerae is a predatory species that hunts among the leaf litter on the bottom of flooded forests in the Rio Negro drainage basin.
==Discovery and taxonomy==
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Characiformes
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Catalog of Fishes
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Animalia
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mouth
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Chordata
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Wikidata
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binomial nomenclature
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digital object identifier
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taxonomy
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International Standard Serial Number
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Actinopterygii
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Rio Negro
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piranha
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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shrimp
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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swim bladder
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FishBase
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World Register of Marine Species
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freshwater fish
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