Cheirodon mitopterus

Cheirodon mitopterus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Characidae
Genus: Cheirodon
Species: C. mitopterus
Binomial name
Cheirodon mitopterus
Fink & Weitzman, 1974

Cheirodon mitopterus is a species of fish in the Characidae family.[1]

Description

It has an elongate, compressed body. It has 32-34 vertebrae and is of a shady green colour with bright silver shading on the sides.

Distribution

Central Panama.

See also

References

  1. Fink, William L., and Stanley H. Weitzman. The so-called cheirodontin fishes of Central America with descriptions of two new species (Pisces: Characidae). Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.

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