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Nipon

Brycon falcatus

Classification

Brycon falcatus, the blacktail brycon, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Bryconidae, the doradas and jaw characins. This species is found in northern South America. Taxonomy Brycon falcatus was first formally described in 1844 by the German zoologists Johannes Peter Müller and Franz Hermann Troschel, with its type locality given as Guyana and Suriname.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 124France · 1