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Dwarf Hatchetfish
Carnegiella schereri
Carnegiella schereri, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gasteropelecidae, the freshwater hatchetfishes. This species is found in the Amazon Basin in Peru and Brazil. It is often sold for home aquariums as silver hatchetfish, dwarf hatchetfish, or Scherer's hatchetfish, and grows to about 2.6 centimeters (1 inch).
It is named in honor of William G. Scherer, an evangelical missionary at Pebas, Peru, who collected the type specimen and shared his collection of fishes from the Peruvian Amazon.
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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 614168.