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Incandescent Tetra
Clupeocharax schoutedeni
Clupeocharax is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alestidae, the African tetras. The only species in the genus is Clupeocharax schoutedeni a fish that is endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Description
Clupeocharax, as its name suggests, has a herring like body that grows to a maximum total length of 25 cm (9.8 in).
Range & habitat
Clupeocharax is endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo where it occurs in Lake Tumba and Lake Yandja, near Yangambi in the Central Congo River basin. It has also been collected in and around Lake Mai-Ndombe and it is likely that C. schoutendeni hase a wider distribution in Central Congo. This is a pelagic fish.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
In human culture
Clupeocharax combines Clupea, Latin for "herring", a reference to this peagic species herring-like body, with Charax, the type genus of the order Characiformes. Charax is derived from the Greek word chárax, which means a "pointed stake in a palisade", an allausion to these fishes having densely arranged sharp teeth and which forms the root of many genus names of characins. The specific name honours Henri Schouteden, a Belgian zoologist who collected specimens in the Belgian Congo, including the holotype of this taxon.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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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 97991.