Cnesterodon pirai, the Almeida toothcarp, is a species of poeciliid that is only know from its type locality, the arroyo Almeida, an affluent of the arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, in the Río Paraná basin, Aristóbulo del Valle, Misiones in Argentina.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Poeciliidae |
| Genus: | Cnesterodon |
| Species: | C. pirai
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Length
editEtymology
editThe species name meaning is pirá, a Guarani word for fish and the í diminutive, referring to the small size of the fishes in this genus.[3]
References
edit- ^ Aguilera, G.; Mirande, J.M.; Azpelicueta, M.d.I.M. (2009). "A new species of Cnesterodon (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from a small tributary of arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, río Paraná basin, Misiones, Argentina". Zootaxa. 2195: 34–42. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2195.1.2. hdl:11336/78051.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cnesterodon pirai". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
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