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Gasteropelecidae
Giant hatchetfish
Thoracocharax securis
Gasteropelecid Fish Reaching Six Point Eight Centimeters
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- South America
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
SmallGiant hatchetfish is known from South America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Characins
- Family
- Gasteropelecidae
- Genus
- Thoracocharax
- Maximum length
- 6.8 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- South America: Amazon River basin.
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