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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderGymnotiformes
  4. ›familyApteronotidae
  5. ›genusPorotergus
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Porotergus gimbeli

Porotergus gimbeli Ellis, 1912

Also callednožovka Gimbelova (ces)

First described in: Eigenmann, C. H. (1912). The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species, and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands. <em>Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum.</em> v. 5 (no. 1): i-xxii + 1-578, Pls. 1-103.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution: Amazon River basin, Brazil and Peru; presence in Guyana (Ellis in Eigenmann, 1912; Ellis, 1913) not confirmed by de Santana, Crampton (2010).

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2401926.