Leporinus multimaculatus

Leporinus multimaculatus is a species of Leporinus found in small tributaries of the Rio Araguaia, the Rio Tocantins and the Rio Xingu basins. It is also found in the Rio Jari basin and coastal drainages of Amapá state in Brazil in South America.[1] This species can reach a length of 11.1 centimetres (4.4 in) SL.[2]

Leporinus multimaculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Anostomidae
Genus: Leporinus
Species:
L. multimaculatus
Binomial name
Leporinus multimaculatus
Birindelli, Teixeira & Britski, 2016

References

  1. BIRINDELLI, J. L. O., TEIXEIRA, T. F., & BRITSKI, H. A. (2016). Two new species of Leporinus Agassiz, 1929 (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from tributaries of the lower Amazon basin in Brazil. Zootaxa, 4178(1), 97–115. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4178.1.4
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Leporinus multimaculatus" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
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