Tarumania walkerae
Sign in to saveTarumania is a genus of freshwater fish described in 2017. It contains a single species, Tarumania walkerae, and constitutes the only genus in the family Tarumaniidae. T. walkerae is a predatory species that hunts among the leaf litter on the bottom of flooded forests in the Rio Negro drainage basin.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Tarumania walkerae is referenced by 3 other articles, and connects out to Characiformes, Catalog of Fishes and Animalia.
It sits within the topics Characiformes, Characoidei and Monotypic fish genera.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCharaciformes
- FamilyTarumaniidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Tarumaniidae
- Collections
- INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA)
- Recorded in
- Brasil
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Discovery and taxonomy
- Description and biology
- References
Tarumania is a genus of freshwater fish described in 2017. It contains a single species, Tarumania walkerae, and constitutes the only genus in the family Tarumaniidae. T. walkerae is a predatory species that hunts among the leaf litter on the bottom of flooded forests in the Rio Negro drainage basin.
==Discovery and taxonomy==
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