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Sternarchogiton
Sternarchogiton is a genus of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae, with five known species. They are distinguished from other apteronotid genera by details of the skull and the broad descending blades of the pterygiophores in the anal fin. They are related to the genera Adontosternarchus and Porotergus
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Sternarchogiton porcinum
speciesSternarchogiton porcinum
Sternarchogiton nattereri
speciesSternarchogiton nattereri
Sternarchogiton labiatus
speciesSternarchogiton labiatus
Sternarchogiton zuanoni
speciesSternarchogiton zuanoni
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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 92236.