Adontosternarchus
Genus of fishes
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Adontosternarchus is a genus of ghost knifefishes found in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in tropical South America. They have blunt snouts, a dark-spotted or -mottled pattern on a pale background (however, spotting/mottling can be so dense that individuals appear almost all dark) and reach up to 18.5–32.2 cm (7.3–12.7 in) in total length.[2][3][4] They feed on zooplankton and can be found quite deep, with A. devenanzii recorded down to 84 m (276 ft).[2]
| Adontosternarchus | |
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| Adontosternarchus clarkae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gymnotiformes |
| Family: | Apteronotidae |
| Subfamily: | Apteronotinae |
| Genus: | Adontosternarchus M. M. Ellis, 1912[1] |
| Type species | |
| Sternarchus sachsi | |
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[3][4]
- Adontosternarchus balaenops (Cope, 1878)
- Adontosternarchus clarkae Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985
- Adontosternarchus devenanzii Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985
- Adontosternarchus duartei de Santana & Vari, 2012[4]
- Adontosternarchus nebulosus Lundberg & Cox Fernandes, 2007
- Adontosternarchus sachsi (W. K. H. Peters, 1877)
