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Pristigasteridae
Amazon pellona
Pellona castelnaeana
Pristigasterid Fish in the Amazon Basin
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Compressed cross-section
LargeAmazon pellona is a fish from South America. Records give a maximum length of 80 cm. Its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Pristigasteridae
- Genus
- Pellona
- Maximum length
- 80 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- South America: Amazon system (Iquitos on Peruvian Amazon and Ambyiacos River in Ecuador to Manáos and perhaps Pará), the Guianas (Lake Amuku area where the Amazon and Essequibo systems join in wet years).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
