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Brown Pencilfish

Nannostomus eques

Classification

Nannostomus eques (from the Greek nanos, meaning "small", the Latin stomus, relating to the mouth, and the Latin eques, meaning "horseman"), commonly known as the diptail, brown or hockey stick pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. It was first described in 1876 by Franz Steindachner, making it one of the first members of the genus to be discovered and described. It is fairly typical of members of this genus, being a small, elongated fish with prominent horizontal stripes.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 9