Psellogrammus is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae. It contains the single species Psellogrammus kennedyi, which occurs in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. It is found in the Paraguay and São Francisco River basins.
| Psellogrammus | |
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| 1917 figure from book 'The American Characidae' | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Characidae |
| Genus: | Psellogrammus C. H. Eigenmann, 1908 |
| Species: | P. kennedyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Psellogrammus kennedyi (C. H. Eigenmann, 1903)
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The fish is named in honor of Clarence Hamilton Kennedy (1879-1952), Eigenmann’s student, later a renowned entomologist, who co-authored work on Paraguayan fishes in which appeared this description.[1]
References edit
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Psellogrammus kennedyi" in FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Family CHARACIDAE: Subfamily STETHAPRIONINAE (h-t)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
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