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Phalloceros reisi
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| Phalloceros reisi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Poeciliidae |
| Genus: | Phalloceros |
| Species: | P. reisi
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| Binomial name | |
| Phalloceros reisi Lucinda, 2008
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Phalloceros reisi, the Apiaí toothcarp, is a species of poeciliid fish native to Brazil. [1]
Distribution
[edit]Phalloceros reisi is found in the headwaters of the rio Tietê, the rio Paraíba do Sul, the rio Ribeira de Iguape, and many small coastal drainages in São Paulo, Brazil. [2]
Size
[edit]The females of this species grow to a total length of 5.0 centimetres (2.0 in), while males remain smaller at 2.7 centimetres (1.1 in). .[2]
Habitat
[edit]The fish live in tropical freshwater; and are benthopelagic. [2]
Etymology
[edit]The fish is named in honor of Roberto E. Reis, of the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, because of his many contributions to neotropical ichthyology. [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 reisi". 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.