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Trochilocharax
Trochilocharax is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae. The only species in the genus is Trochilocharax ornatus, the hummingbird tetra, and this genus is the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Trochilocharacinae. This species is known only from Peru, the holotypes being imported to Germany from Peru, near Iquitos. This species has a maximum standard length of 1.7 cm (0.67 in).
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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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 92664.