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Austrolebias
Austrolebias nigripinnis, also known as blackfin pearlfish, is an ephemeral killifish in the family Rivulidae. These annual killifish lives in temporary water bodies during the season, thus it undergoes its entire life cycle within the periodically drying-up temporary ponds in the Río de la Plata, Patos–Mirim and Mamoré basins in South Americal [10]
Most species are small, less than 10 cm (3.9 in) in total length, but a few reach 15–22 cm (5.9–8.7 in), making them some of the largest killifish (only a few Fundulus, Moema and Orestias reach a similar or larger size).
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species

Argentine Pearlfish
speciesAustrolebias bellottii

Yelloweye Pearlfish
speciesAustrolebias ephemerus

Striped-eye Pearlfish
speciesAustrolebias melanoorus

Opalescent Pearlfish
speciesAustrolebias queguay

Paraguay Pearlfish
speciesAustrolebias vandenbergi
Ghost Pearlfish
speciesAustrolebias accorsii
Austrolebias ayoreode
speciesAustrolebias ayoreode
One-spine Pearlfish
speciesAustrolebias univentripinnis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 86782.