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Leporinus alternus
Leporinus alternus Eigenmann, 1912
First described in: Eigenmann, C. H. (1912). The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species, and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands. <em>Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum.</em> v. 5 (no. 1): i-xxii + 1-578, Pls. 1-103.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Leporinus alternus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2355352.