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Phalloceros harpagos
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| Phalloceros harpagos | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Poeciliidae |
| Genus: | Phalloceros |
| Species: | P. harpagos
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| Binomial name | |
| Phalloceros harpagos Lucinda, 2008
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Phalloceros harpagos, the ellipse spot toothcarp, is a species of poeciliid fish native to Brazil. [1]
Distribution
[edit]Phalloceros harpagos is found in South America and is found in the Rio Paraná-Paraguay basin and also the coastal drainages from rio Itaboapana to the rio Araranguá.[2]
Size
[edit]The females of this species grow to a total length of 4.7 centimetres (1.9 in), while males remain smaller at 3.4 centimetres (1.3 in). .[2]
Habitat
[edit]The fish live in tropical freshwater; and are benthopelagic. [2]
Etymology
[edit]The fish is named is from Greek for hook, referring to the small and simple hook in gonopodial appendix. [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 harpagos". 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.