Pellona
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| Pellona | |
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| Pellona castelnaeana | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Pristigasteridae |
| Genus: | Pellona Valenciennes, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Pellona orbignyana (a synonym of Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes, 1837)) Valenciennes, 1847[1] | |
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Pellona is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Pristigasteridae. The genus contains six species.[2] Three of these are restricted to freshwater habitats in tropical and subtropical South America, while P. dayi and P. ditchela are found in coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific, and P. harroweri is found in coastal Atlantic waters from Panama to Brazil.
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