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Acestrorhynchus grandoculis in Venezuela

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Acestrorhynchus grandoculis   Menezes & Géry, 1983
Family:	Acestrorhynchidae (Smallscale pike characins)			picture () by ( not available )
Order:	Characiformes  (characins)
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
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Max. size:	10.8 cm SL (male/unsexed; Ref. 13661)
Environment:	benthopelagic
Climate:	tropical
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Resilience:
Distribution:	South America: Negro, Orinoco, and Amazon River basins.
Diagnosis:	Presence of a minute, dark spot behind the operculum; scales on lateral line 77-87; scale rows between the lateral line and the base of the dorsal fin 16-17; large eye 31.1-38.6% HL; short snout 26.3-33.3% HL (Ref. 52916).
Biology:
Threatened:	Not Evaluated, see IUCN Red List  , (Ref. 36508)
Dangerous:	harmless
Coordinator:
Main Ref:	Taphorn, D., R. Royero, A. Machado-Allison and F. Mago Leccia. 1997. (Ref. 28768)
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Venezuela country information
Common names:	[ No common name ]		Ref:
Status:	native		Ref:  López-Fernández, H. and K.O. Winemiller, 2003
Salinity:	freshwater
Regulations:	no regulations		Ref:
Uses:	no uses
Comments:	Found in black-water rivers, mostly with Rio Negro-Casiquiare drainages and the middle Orinoco near the Atabapo and Ventuari rivers (Ref. 52916). Also found in the Amazon, from Rio Cinaruco in western Ilanos and Rio Caura in the Guyana Shield region (Ref. 52916).
Country Information:	www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ve.html
Occurrences:	Occurrences    Point map
Main Ref:	Taphorn, D., R. Royero, A. Machado-Allison and F. Mago Leccia, 1997
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	Entered:  Torres, Armi G.

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