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Sternarchella schotti

Sternarchella schotti

Classification

Sternarchella schotti, the sarapó, is a species of freshwater ray-fiinned fish belonging to the family Apteronotidae, the ghost knifefishes. This species is found in the Amazon and Orinoco river systems in South America. Taxonomy Sternarchella schotti was first formally described as Sternarchus schotti in 1868 by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner with its type locality given as Manaus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 2