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hyphessobrycons

Megalamphodus copelandi

Classification

Megalamphodus copelandi, the black heart tetra, feather tetra or Copeland's tetra, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American tetras. This species is found in South America. Taxonomy Megalamphodus copelandi was first formally described as Hyphessobrycon copelandi in 1908 by the American entomologist and ichthyologist Marion Durbin Ellis, with its type locality given as Tabatinga in Amazonas, Brazil.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 19