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Erythrinus
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Erythrinus

Erythrinus is a genus of relatively small trahiras, freshwater fish from tropical South America.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Red Wolffish

speciesErythrinus erythrinus

Kessler's Wolffish

speciesErythrinus kessleri

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Erythrinus in History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds

History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds

Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.417

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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 88247.