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Sternarchorhynchus retzeri de, Santana & Vari, 2010

Retzer’s tube-snouted ghost knifefish
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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Type locality, Amazonas: Rio Tefé, Toco Preto, Tefé, MCP 41636 (holotype of Sternarchorhynchus retzeri, 37.2 cm TL, sexually dimorphic male). Broadly distributed across the Amazon basin from the Rio Iça basin in the western portions of Amazonas to the Rio Trombetas in Pará (Ref. 84053).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: de Santana, C. D. and R.P. Vari, 2010
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Retzer's tube-snouted ghost knifefish, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Gymnotiformes (Knifefishes) > Apteronotidae (Ghost knifefishes) > Apteronotinae
Etymology: Sternarchorhynchus: Greek, sternon = sternon, + Greek, archos = anus + Greek, rhyngchos = snout (Ref. 45335);  retzeri: Named for Michael Retzer of the Illinois Natural History Survey..
  More on authors: de, Santana & Vari.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic.   Tropical

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