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Two-lined Pencilfish

Nannostomus bifasciatus

Classification

Nannostomus bifasciatus, the twolined pencilfishor whiteside pencilfish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lebiasinidae, the pencilfishes, splashing tetras and related fishes. This species is found in Amapá in Brazil, in French Guiana, and in Suriname. Taxonomy Nannostomus bifasciatus was first formally described in 1954 by the Dutch ichthyologist and aquarist Jacobus Johannes Hoedeman, with its type locality given as Berg en Dal at the Suriname River in Suriname.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 5Brazil · 2