Xenurobrycon polyancistrus

Xenurobrycon polyancistrus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Characidae
Genus: Xenurobrycon
Species:
X. polyancistrus
Binomial name
Xenurobrycon polyancistrus

Xenurobrycon polyancistrus is a species of characid fish of the subfamily Glandulocaudinae. A freshwater fish, it is the smallest species of characin in its family and order. Adults can grow up to 1.4 cm long.[1]

Distribution

Found in the gallery forest pools adjacent to rivers in savannah areas of the Rio Mamore and Rio Isiboro drainages in Bolivia.[2]

It is also found in the Río Madre de Dios basin in Peru.

Discovery

It was found among a collection of fishes from Bolivia sent by Gerard Loubens of the Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Laboratoire d'Ichthyologie de l'Universite de Trinidad, Estado Beni, Bolivia.

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Xenurobrycon polyancistrus". FishBase. August 2014 version.
  2. ^ A new species of Xenurobrycon Nannostomus (Teleostei: Characidae) from the Río Mamore basin of Bolivia by Stanley H. Weitzman Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100:112-120 (1987)i. 1987.


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