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Poptella
Poptella is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. The fishes in this genus are found in tropical South America. The name of this genus honours the Dutch ichthyologist Canna Maria Louise Popta who was a Curator of Reptiles, Amphibians and Fishes at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden and who described the type species of this genus as Tetragonopterus longipinnis in 1901, donating one of the types to Carl H. Eigenmann’s collection at Indiana University.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species
Brazilian Poptella
speciesPoptella brevispina
Lunar Poptella
speciesPoptella compressa
Kite Poptella
speciesPoptella longipinnis
Paraguay Poptella
speciesPoptella paraguayensis
Skittish Poptella
speciesPoptella fuscata
Amazonian Poptella
speciesPoptella actenolepis
Xingu Poptella
speciesPoptella fortispina
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 91244.