Pellona is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Pristigasteridae. The genus contains six species.[1] Three of these are restricted to freshwater habitats in tropical and subtropical South America, while P. dayi and P. ditchela are found in coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific, and P. harroweri is found in coastal Atlantic waters from Panama to Brazil.
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| Pellona flavipinnis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Pristigasteridae |
| Genus: | Pellona Valenciennes, 1847 |
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Species edit
- Pellona altamazonica Cope, 1872
- Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes, 1847 (Amazon pellona)
- Pellona dayi Wongratana, 1983 (Day's pellona)
- Pellona ditchela Valenciennes, 1847 (Indian pellona)
- Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes, 1837) (Yellowfin river pellona)
- Pellona harroweri (Fowler, 1917) (American coastal pellona)
References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Pellona in FishBase. June 2011 version.
- "Pellona". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
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