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Cachorros
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Cachorros

Acestrorhynchinae

Acestrorhynchus ("needle jaw" ) is a genus of characiform fish found only in fresh water in South America, the sole genus in the subfamily Acestrorhynchinae. Their greatest diversity is in the Orinoco and Amazon basins.

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1 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 14 known species

Cachorros

genusAcestrorhynchus

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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 788719.