Psellogrammus

Psellogrammus
1917 figure from book 'The American Characidae'
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Characidae
Genus:	Psellogrammus C. H. Eigenmann, 1908
Species:	P. kennedyi
Binomial name
Psellogrammus kennedyi (C. H. Eigenmann, 1903)

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.

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.

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Psellogrammus kennedyi" in FishBase. October 2011 version.

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Taxon identifiers
Psellogrammus	Wikidata: Q19757842 ADW: Psellogrammus BOLD: 209380 CoL: 6YGF EoL: 99440 GBIF: 2354097 iNaturalist: 91384 IRMNG: 1027224 ITIS: 639335 NCBI: 930396 Open Tree of Life: 575369 uBio: 117428 WoRMS: 270553

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