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Kronichthys
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Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Kronichthys, and connects out to Animalia, Chordata and Wikidata.
It sits within the topics Catfish genera, Endemic fish of Brazil and Freshwater fish genera.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSiluriformes
- FamilyLoricariidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- Family
- Loricariidae
- Collections
- UMMZ, INHS, CAS, USNM, FMNH, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA)
- Recorded in
- Brazil, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Neoplecostominae
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- taxon name
- Kronichthys
- taxon rank
- genus
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Species
- Description
- References
Kronichthys is a genus of armored catfishes endemic to Brazil.
The genus is named in honor of naturalist-archaeologist Ricardo Krone (1861–1917), who collected the type species specimen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kronichthys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.