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Sheep pacu

Acnodon normani

Classification

Acnodon normani, the sheep-pacu, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Serrasalmidae, which includes the pacus and piranhas. This species is found in the Amazon River basin of Brazil. Taxonomy Acnodon normani was first formally described in 1951 by the American ichthyologist William Alonzo Gosline with its type locality given as the Rio Santa Teresa, a western tributary of the upper Rio Tocantins in Goias State, Brazil.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog