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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderGymnotiformes
  4. ›familySternopygidae
  5. ›genusArcholaemus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Knifefish

Archolaemus blax Korringa, 1970

Also calledPoisson-couteau (fra) · dlouhoocaska tocantinská (ces)

First described in: Korringa, M. (1970). A new gymnotoid fish from the Rio Tocantins, Brazil. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4).</em> 38 (no. 13): 265-271.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

discussion

Remarks: Redescribed in Schwassmann, Carvalho (1985). Distribution: Tocantins River basin, Brazil (Korringa, 1970; Vari et al., 2012).

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2402013.