Xenurobrycon polyancistrus is a species of characid fish of the subfamily Glandulocaudinae. A freshwater fish, it is the smallest species of characin in its family and order. Adults can grow up to 1.4 cm long.[1]
| Xenurobrycon polyancistrus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Characidae |
| Genus: | Xenurobrycon |
| Species: | X. polyancistrus
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| Binomial name | |
| Xenurobrycon polyancistrus S. H. Weitzman, 1987
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Distribution
editFound in the gallery forest pools adjacent to rivers in savannah areas of the Rio Mamore and Rio Isiboro drainages in Bolivia.[2]
It is also found in the Río Madre de Dios basin in Peru.
Discovery
editIt was found among a collection of fishes from Bolivia sent by Gerard Loubens of the Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Laboratoire d'Ichthyologie de l'Universite de Trinidad, Estado Beni, Bolivia.
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Xenurobrycon polyancistrus". FishBase. August 2014 version.
- ^ A new species of Xenurobrycon Nannostomus (Teleostei: Characidae) from the Río Mamore basin of Bolivia by Stanley H. Weitzman Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100:112-120 (1987)i. 1987.
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