Sternarchogiton porcinum
Sternarchogiton porcinum
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
Sternarchogiton porcinum is a species of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae. It is native to deep river channels in the Río Huallaga, Río Napo, and Río Amazonas in Peru, and in the Río Orinoco in Venezuela. Many specimens once identified as S. porcinum from the Brazilian Amazon Basin and the Venezuelan Orinoco are now known to be a different species, S. preto.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Gymnotiformes
- Family
- Apteronotidae
- Genus
- Sternarchogiton