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Sword-Cheeked Tetra

Corynopoma riisei

Classification

Corynopoma is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Stevardiidae. The only species in the genus is Corynopoma riisei, the sword-tail characin, a species of characin found in Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Taxonomy Corynopoma was first proposed as a genus in 1858 by the American biologist Theodore Gill when he described Corynopoma riisei.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog