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Brycinus
Brycinus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Alestiidae. Like other "African characids", they were formerly included in the Characidae but are actually somewhat more distantly related Characiformes.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species
True big-scale tetra
speciesBrycinus macrolepidotus
Largescale Robber
speciesBrycinus grandisquamis
Mirror Robber
speciesBrycinus rhodopleura
Brycinus poptae
speciesBrycinus poptae
Brycinus schoutedeni
speciesBrycinus schoutedeni
Kaya Robber
speciesBrycinus leuciscus
Brycinus batesii
speciesBrycinus batesii
Brycinus brevis
speciesBrycinus brevis
Brycinus luteus
speciesBrycinus luteus
Brycinus carmesinus
speciesBrycinus carmesinus
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 55205.