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Boulengerella
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Boulengerella

Boulengerella is a genus of pike-characins from tropical South America, found in the Amazon Basin, Orinoco, and rivers of the Guiana Shield. The currently described species are:

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Spotted Pike-characin

speciesBoulengerella maculata

bicuda

speciesBoulengerella cuvieri

Striped Pike-characin

speciesBoulengerella lateristriga

Pirapucu

speciesBoulengerella lucius

Boulengerella xyrekes

speciesBoulengerella xyrekes

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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 84417.