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Priocharax pygmaeus
Priocharax pygmaeus is a minute species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. This fish is found in the Upper Amazon River basin in Colombia. It has also been recorded from the Río Ucayali basin in Peru. The species, which has a skeleton of cartilage, is almost completely transparent.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 610987.