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false rummy-nose tetra
Petitella georgiae
Petitella georgiae, the false rummy-nose tetra, is a species of characin found in Amazon Basin in Brazil and Peru. It is a very popular aquarium fish. It resembles two species from its genus, Petitella bleheri and Petitella rhodostoma. It is distributed in the upper Amazon basin in Peru, Rio Purus, Rio Negro, and Rio Madeira basins (which has been found in an aquarium fish import from Peru in the late 1950s in Switzerland by H. Boutiere).
From the article Petitella georgiae on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Petitella georgiae has a maximum standard length of 3.9 cm (1.5 in). This species can be distinguished from the other two Petitella species by the possession of a long, broad maxilla with a single row of teeth on the premaxilla, and between 9 and 11 teeth, with 5 cuspids on the dentary and the absence of a black spot on the lower part of the caudal peduncle.
Range & habitat
Petitella georgiae is found in the western Amazon Basin in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. This species is found in lakes in the floodplains of clear water rivers.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
In human culture
Petitella georgiae is the type species of the genus Petitella. This name suffixes the Latin diminutive -ella onto the surname of the French zoologist and anatomist Georges Petit, who was director of the Laboratoire Arago in France. The specific name, georgiae, honours Géry’s wife, Georgie.
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 610952.