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Anostomuses
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Anostomuses

Anostomus

Anostomus is a small genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes in the family Anostomidae, the toothed headstanders. This species in this genus are found in South America. They occur in the Orinoco and Amazon Basin, as well as various rivers in the Guianas. Petulanos was until recently included here.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Striped Headstander

speciesAnostomus anostomus

Ternetz's Anostomus

speciesAnostomus ternetzi

Anostomus longus

speciesAnostomus longus

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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 86497.