Amblystilbe

Monotypic genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amblystilbe is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Characidae. The only species in the genus is Amblystilbe howesi, a characin, which is found in the western Amazon basin in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.[3] This fish has a maximum standard length of 4.2 cm (1.7 in).[4]

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Amblystilbe
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Characidae
Subfamily: Cheirodontinae
Genus: Amblystilbe
Fowler, 1940[2]
Species:
A. howesi
Binomial name
Amblystilbe howesi
Fowler, 1940[3]
Synonyms[3]
  • Prodontocharax howesi (Fowler, 1940)
  • Prodontocharax alleni Böhlke, 1953
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