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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCharaciformes
  4. ›familyAnostomidae
  5. ›genusLeporinus
Leporinus nijsseni
Fig. 5. Britski, Birindelli, 2013 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN LC · Least concern

Leporinus nijsseni

Leporinus nijsseni Garavello, 1990

Also calledLeporinus de Nijssen (fra)

First described in: Garavello, J.C. (1990). A new species of the anostomid genus Leporinus Spix from Suriname, with redescriptions of two related species (Pisces, Characiformes, Anostomidae). <em>Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 12(11): 161-170.

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”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2355400.