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Phalloceros enneaktinos
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| Phalloceros enneaktinos | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Poeciliidae |
| Genus: | Phalloceros |
| Species: | P. enneaktinos
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| Binomial name | |
| Phalloceros enneaktinos Lucinda, 2008
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Phalloceros enneaktinos, the nine ray toothcarp, is a species of poeciliid fish native to Brazil. [1]
Distribution
[edit]Phalloceros enneaktinos is found in Brazil and is known only from where the type localityis located in the Córrego da Toca do Boi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2]
Size
[edit]The females of this species grow to a total length of 3.6 centimetres (1.4 in), while males remain smaller at 2.4 centimetres (0.94 in). .[2]
Habitat
[edit]The fish live in tropical freshwater; and are pelagic. [2]
Etymology
[edit]The fish is named in Latin = enneas meaning nine; aktinos, rays, referring to number of the dorsal-fin rays in both sexes. [3]
References
[edit]- ^ Lucinda, P.H.F. (2008). "Systematics and biogeography of the genus Phalloceros Eigenmann, 1907 (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae), with the description of twenty-one new species". Neotrop. Ichthyol. 6 (2): 113–158. doi:10.1590/S1679-62252008000200001.
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Phalloceros enneaktinos". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 February 2025.