Biology:Psellogrammus
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Psellogrammus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Characidae |
| Genus: | Psellogrammus C. H. Eigenmann, 1908 |
| Species: | P. kennedyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Psellogrammus kennedyi (C. H. Eigenmann, 1903)
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Psellogrammus is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae. It contains the single species Psellogrammus kennedyi, which occurs in Argentina , Brazil , and Paraguay. It is found in the Paraguay and São Francisco River basins.
The fish is named in honor of Clarence Hamilton Kennedy (1879-1952), Eigenmann’s student, later a renowned entomologist, who co-authored work on Paraguayan fishes in which appeared this description.[1]
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Psellogrammus kennedyi" in FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ↑ "Order CHARACIFORMES: Family CHARACIDAE: Subfamily STETHAPRIONINAE (h-t)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/characiformes5/.
Wikidata ☰ Q19757842 entry
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