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Species of fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carnegiella schereri, a species of freshwater hatchetfish, is native to the Amazon Basin in Peru and Brazil.[1] It is often sold for home aquariums as silver hatchetfish, dwarf hatchetfish, or Scherer's hatchetfish, and grows to about 2.6 centimeters (1 inch).[2]
Carnegiella schereri | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Gasteropelecidae |
Genus: | Carnegiella |
Species: | C. schereri |
Binomial name | |
Carnegiella schereri Fernández-Yépez, 1950 | |
Named in honor of William G. Scherer, an Evangelical Missionary at Pebas, Peru, who collected the type specimen and shared his collection of fishes from the Peruvian Amazon.[3]
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