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Roestes

Roestes is a genus of dogtooth characins from tropical South America, where found in the Amazon Basin and various rivers in the Guianas. There are three described species in this genus.

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

Roestes molossus

speciesRoestes molossus

Roestes ogilviei

speciesRoestes ogilviei

Roestes itupiranga

speciesRoestes itupiranga

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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 91799.