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Red Phantom Tetra

Megalamphodus sweglesi

Classification

Megalamphodus sweglesi, commonly known as the red phantom tetra, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. This fish is found in the Orinoco River drainage basin in South America. Taxonomy Megalamphodus sweglesi was first formally described in 1977 by the French ichthyologist Jacques Géry, with its type locality given as the River Muco in the upper Río Orinoco basin of Colombia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 29