Biology:Cheirodon dialepturus

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Cheirodon dialepturus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Characidae
Genus: Cheirodon
Species:
C. dialepturus
Binomial name
Cheirodon dialepturus
Fink & Weitzman, 1974

Cheirodon dialepturus is a species of fish in the family Characidae.[1]

Description

It has an elongate, compressed body. It has 32–34 vertebrae and is of a pale brown colour with a bronze-green shading and some conspicuous black scales at the back.

Distribution

In Pacific drainages from Costa Rica to Panama and Colombia.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Fink, William L., and Stanley H. Weitzman. The so-called cheirodontin fishes of Central America with descriptions of two new species (Pisces: Characidae). Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.

Wikidata ☰ Q5089701 entry