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Lepidarchidae
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Lepidarchidae

Lepidarchidae is a small family of freshwater fish in the order Characiformes. It contains only two threatened, monotypic genera native to western Africa.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 2 known species

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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 1595030.