Biology:Schizodon knerii
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Short description: Species of fish
| Schizodon knerii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Anostomidae |
| Genus: | Schizodon |
| Species: | S. knerii
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| Binomial name | |
| Schizodon knerii (Steindachner, 1875)
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Schizodon knerii is a fish in the family Anostomidae from South America.[1][2]
Named in honor of ichthyologist Rudolf Kner (1810-1869), who studied anostomid fishes. Kner was describer Steindachner’s teacher and friend.[3]
Description
Schizodon knerii can grow to 23.5 cm (9.3 in) standard length.
Distribution
Schizodon knerii is endemic to the São Francisco River basin, Brazil .[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Schizodon knerii" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ↑ "Schizodon knerii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=641709.
- ↑ "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE, HEMIODONTIDAE, ANOSTOMIDAE and CHILODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/characiformes2/.
Wikidata ☰ Q6415064 entry
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