Sternarchella
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| Genus: | Sternarchella C. H. Eigenmann, 1905
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| Sternarchus schotti Steindachner, 1868
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Sternarchella is a genus of ghost knifefishes found in tropical South America.
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[1][2]
- Sternarchella calhamazon Lundberg, Cox Fernandes, Campos-da-Paz & Sullivan, 2013[2]
- Sternarchella curvioperculata Godoy (pt), 1968
- Sternarchella orthos Mago-Leccia, 1994
- Sternarchella schotti (Steindachner, 1868)
- Sternarchella sima Starks, 1913
- Sternarchella terminalis (C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Sternarchella". FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ^ a b Lundberg, J.G., Cox Fernandes, C., Campos-Da-Paz, R. & Sullivan, J.P. (2013): ';Sternarchella calhamazon n. sp., the Amazon’s most abundant species of apteronotid electric fish, with a note on the taxonomic status of Sternarchus capanemae Steindachner, 1868 (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 162: 157-173.
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