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Golden Pencilfish

Nannostomus beckfordi

Classification

Nannostomus beckfordi, the golden pencilfish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lebiasinidae, the pencil fishes, splashing tetras and related fishes. This species is indigenous to northern South America, but has been introduced to the Atlantic coastal region of Brazil. Taxonomy Nannostomus beckfordi was first formally described in 1872 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther, with its type locality given as the coast of Demerara in Guyana.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 83France · 8