Ammocryptocharax elegans
Species of fish
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Ammocryptocharax elegans is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Crenuchidae, the South American darters. This species was described in 1976 by Stanley Howard Weitzman and Robert H. Kanazawa,[3] who proposed the new genus Ammocryptocharax for this species, designating this species as the type species of that genus.[4] This species is found in the catchment of the Amazon in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru and in the upper Orinoco in Venezuela and Colombia.[1]
| Ammocryptocharax elegans | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Crenuchidae |
| Genus: | Ammocryptocharax |
| Species: | A. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Ammocryptocharax elegans | |
