Pyrrhulina marilynae is a species of fish in the Pyrrhulina genus found in the basins of the Tapajós and Xingu River. They grow no more than a few centimeters.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Lebiasinidae |
| Genus: | Pyrrhulina |
| Species: | P. marilynae
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| Binomial name | |
| Pyrrhulina marilynae >Netto-Ferreira & Marinho, 2013
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The fish is named in honor of Marilyn Weitzman (b. 1926) of the Smithsonian Institution, for mentorship to both describers when they began studying the family Lebiasinidae. Marilyn Weitzman is the wife of ichthyologist Stanley Weitzman.[2]
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pyrrhulina marilynae". FishBase. April 2019 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families CURIMATIDAE, PROCHILODONTIDAE, LEBIASINIDAE, CTENOLUCIIDAE and ACESTRORHYNCHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
External links
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