Nannostomus_digrammus

<i>Nannostomus digrammus</i>

Nannostomus digrammus

Species of fish

Nannostomus digrammus, (from the Greek: nanos = small, and the Latin stomus = relating to the mouth; from the Latin: digrammus = two lines),[1][2] commonly known as the twostripe pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae.[3] They were first described in 1913 by Henry Weed Fowler and are fairly typical of members of this genus being small, elongated fish with prominent horizontal stripes, in this case limited to two dominant stripes, usually maroon in color. They are recorded as native to Brazil and Guyana, where they occur fairly widely, but are seen only occasionally in the aquarium trade.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Nannostomus in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  2. [2]
    "Fish Name Etymology Project: Characiformes. Scharpf & Lazara". The Etyfish Project. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  3. [3]
    "ITIS report Nannostomus digrammus TSN 641479". Retrieved Feb 16, 2012.
  4. [4]
    "Fishbase report Nannostomus digrammus". Retrieved Feb 16, 2012.


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