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Pseudanos
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Pseudanos

Pseudanos is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Anostomidae, the toothed headstander. The fishes in this genus are from South America, in the Orinoco and Amazon Basins.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Threespot Headstander

speciesPseudanos trimaculatus

Pseudanos gracilis

speciesPseudanos gracilis

Pseudanos varii

speciesPseudanos varii

Chocolate Headstander

speciesPseudanos winterbottomi

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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 91402.