Brachyhypopomus brevirostris
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| Brachyhypopomus brevirostris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gymnotiformes |
| Family: | Hypopomidae |
| Genus: | Brachyhypopomus |
| Species: | B. brevirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Brachyhypopomus brevirostris (Steindachner, 1868) | |
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Brachyhypopomus brevirostris is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Hypopomidae, the bluntnose knifefishes. This species is found rivers in the northern part of South America.
Brachyhypopomus brevirostris was first formally described as Rhamphichthys brevirostris in 1868 by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner with its type locality given as the Rio Guaporé in Brazil.[2] In 1994 Francisco Mago Leccia proposed a new genus, Brachyhypopomus, with Rhamphichthys brevirostris as its type species. The genus Brachyhypopomus belongs to the family Hypopomidae which is classified within the order Gymnotiformes.[3]
Etymology
Brachyhypopomus brevirostris is the type species of the genus Brachyhypopomus, this name prefixes brachys-, meaning "short", onto Hypopomus, a reference to the short snout of these fishes in comparison to those in Hypopomus. The specific name, brevirostris, means "short snout", Steindachner describing that of R. brevirostris as "greatly blunted".[4]