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Spotted pike-characin

Boulengerella maculata

Classification

Boulengerella maculata, the spotted pike-characin or agujeta, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ctenoluciidae, the pike-characins. This species is found in tropical South America. Taxonomy Boulengerella maculata was first formally described as Xiphostoma maculatum by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes in Volume 22 of Histoire naturelle des poissons, coauthored with Georges Cuvier, which was published in 1850.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 24