Priocharax robbiei
| Priocharax robbiei | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Genus: | Priocharax |
| Species: | P. robbiei
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| Binomial name | |
| Priocharax robbiei Silva Lopez, Souza, Reia, Mantuaneli, Morales, F. C. T. Lima, Oliveira & Mattox, 2025
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Priocharax robbiei is a minute species of fish native to the Rio Purus and Solimões Draina, Brazil. The species, which has a skeleton of cartilage, is almost completely transparent.[1][2]
Size
This species reaches a length of 1.6 cm (0.63 in).[3]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Roberto "Robbie" Taliaferro Mattox Jr., who was the father of Mattox, who died while his son was in the field collecting fish and when the type series was found.[4]
References
- ^ Giovanna Guimarães Silva Lopez, Camila Silva Souza, Lais Reia, Larissa Arruda Mantuaneli, Bruno Ferezim Morales, Flávio Cesar Thadeo Lima, Claudio Oliveira & George Mendes Taliaferro Mattox (2025). Two New Species of Miniature Tetras of the Genus Priocharax (Teleostei: Characiformes: Acestrorhamphidae) from the Rio Purus and Solimões Drainages, Amazonas, Brazil. Taxonomy 5(3): 36. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy5030036
- ^ Mattox, G.M.T., F.C.T. Lima, R. Britz, C.S. Souza and C. Oliveira, 2024. Two new miniature species of the fish genus Priocharax from the Rio Tapajós and Amazonas drainages, Pará, Brazil (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Vertebrate Zoology 74:533-550.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Priocharax robbiei". FishBase. February 2025 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family ACESTRORHAMPHIDAE Eigenmann 1907 (American Tetras)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 December 2025.