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Parecbasis

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Parecbasis is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.[2] It contains the single species Parecbasis cyclolepis, found in the Western Amazon Basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.[1]

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Parecbasis
An illustration of Parecbasis cyclolepis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily: Hyphessobryconinae
Genus: Parecbasis
C. H. Eigenmann, 1914[2]
Species:
P. cyclolepis
Binomial name
Parecbasis cyclolepis
C. H. Eigenmann, 1914[3]
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