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    The pencil fishes are a family (Lebiasinidae) of freshwater fishes found in Costa Rica, Panama, and South America. They are usually small and are known...
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    Characidae and to its former subfamilies Alestidae (the "African tetras") and Lebiasinidae. The Characidae are distinguished from other fish by the presence of...
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    Copella arnoldi (category Lebiasinidae)
    tetra, is a species of tropical freshwater fish belonging to the family Lebiasinidae. It is native to South America. The fish is named in honor of German...
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    Pencil fish (category Lebiasinidae)
    relating to the mouth) is a genus of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. All of the species in this genus are known as pencil fish, a popular...
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    Nannostomus mortenthaleri (category Lebiasinidae)
    pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. It is one of the most colourful of the genus, being suffused with a...
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  • Nannostomus digrammus (category Lebiasinidae)
    pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. They were first described in 1913 by Henry Weed Fowler and are fairly...
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    Nannostomus espei (category Lebiasinidae)
    pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. It was first described in 1956 by Herman Meinken from the Mazaruni River...
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    Nannostomus marginatus (category Lebiasinidae)
    species of fish belonging to the genus Nannostomus in the characin family Lebiasinidae. They were first described in 1909 by C. H. Eigenmann and are typical...
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    Nannostomus beckfordi (category Lebiasinidae)
    fish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. It occurs widely and commonly in swamps and slow-moving waters in Brazil...
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    Erythrinidae Gasteropelecidae Hemiodontidae Hepsetidae Iguanodectidae Lebiasinidae Parodontidae Prochilodontidae Serrasalmidae Tarumaniidae Triportheidae...
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  • Labridae Labrisomidae Lactariidae Lamnidae Lampridae Latimeriidae Latridae Lebiasinidae Leiognathidae Lepidogalaxiidae Lepidosirenidae Lepisosteidae Leptobramidae...
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    Nannostomus unifasciatus (category Lebiasinidae)
    species of fish belonging to the genus Nannostomus in the characin family Lebiasinidae. They are popular in the aquarium trade due to their small size, beautiful...
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    Nannostomus eques (category Lebiasinidae)
    pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. It was first described in 1876 by Franz Steindachner making it one of...
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    Pyrrhulina (category Lebiasinidae)
    1997 Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Characiformes (Characins) > Lebiasinidae (Pencilfishes) > Pyrrhulininae Etymology: Pyrrhulina: Greek, pyrrhos...
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  • Derhamia (category Lebiasinidae)
    2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families CURIMATIDAE, PROCHILODONTIDAE, LEBIASINIDAE, CTENOLUCIIDAE and ACESTRORHYNCHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name...
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    genus Nannostomus are a typical example, having now been moved into the Lebiasinidae, the assorted predatory species belonging to Hoplias and Hoplerythrinus...
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    2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families CURIMATIDAE, PROCHILODONTIDAE, LEBIASINIDAE, CTENOLUCIIDAE and ACESTRORHYNCHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name...
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  • As of 19 August 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has identified 3,005 critically endangered species, subspecies, stocks and subpopulations...
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    Nannostomus marilynae (category Lebiasinidae)
    pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. They have been recorded from the Rio Negro and Rio Orinoco regions of...
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    Nannostomus limatus (category Lebiasinidae)
    pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. They were first described in 1978 by Stanley H. Weitzman along with...
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  • Nannostomus britskii (category Lebiasinidae)
    pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the family Lebiasinidae of characins. They were first described in 1978 by Stanley H. Weitzman...
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  • Lebiasina (category Lebiasinidae)
    E.A. (2013): New species of Lebiasina (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the upper Mazaruni River drainage, Guyana. Zootaxa, 3652 (5): 562–568...
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  • Nannostomus harrisoni (category Lebiasinidae)
    2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families CURIMATIDAE, PROCHILODONTIDAE, LEBIASINIDAE, CTENOLUCIIDAE and ACESTRORHYNCHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name...
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    Copella (fish) (category Lebiasinidae)
    Copella is a genus of freshwater fish belonging to the family Lebiasinidae, native to South America, known colloquially to aquarists as splashing tetras...
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  • Pyrrhulina marilynae (category Lebiasinidae)
    for mentorship to both describers when they began studying the family Lebiasinidae. Marilyn Weitzman is the wife of ichthyologist Stanley Weitzman. Froese...
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    Nannostomus bifasciatus (category Lebiasinidae)
    bands), is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. It is commonly known as the two-lined pencilfish. It can be found in...
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  • Pyrrhulina eleanorae (category Lebiasinidae)
    2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families CURIMATIDAE, PROCHILODONTIDAE, LEBIASINIDAE, CTENOLUCIIDAE and ACESTRORHYNCHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name...
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  • 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families CURIMATIDAE, PROCHILODONTIDAE, LEBIASINIDAE, CTENOLUCIIDAE and ACESTRORHYNCHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name...
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  • 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families CURIMATIDAE, PROCHILODONTIDAE, LEBIASINIDAE, CTENOLUCIIDAE and ACESTRORHYNCHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name...
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    Nannostomus trifasciatus (category Lebiasinidae)
    pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. They are popular in the aquarium trade due to their small size, beautiful...
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