Cnesterodon pirai
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| genus = Cnesterodon
| species = pirai
| authority = Aguilera, Mirande & Azpelicueta, 2009
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Cnesterodon pirai, the Almeida toothcarp, is a species of poeciliid that is only know from its type locality, the arroyo Almeida, an affluent of the arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, in the Río Paraná basin, Aristóbulo del Valle, Misiones in Argentina.{{cite journal |last1=Aguilera |first1=G. |first2=J.M. |last2=Mirande |first3=M.d.I.M. |last3=Azpelicueta |year=2009 |title=A new species of Cnesterodon (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from a small tributary of arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, río Paraná basin, Misiones, Argentina |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2195 |pages=34–42 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2195.1.2|hdl=11336/78051 |hdl-access=free }}
Length
This species reaches a length of {{convert|2.8|cm|in|abbr=on}} TL.{{FishBase |genus= Cnesterodon |species= pirai| month = February | year = 2015}}
Etymology
The species name meaning is pirá, a Guarani word for fish and the í diminutive, referring to the small size of the fishes in this genus.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cyprinodontiformes4/ | title = Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE | access-date= 14 July 2024 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
References
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Category:Fish of South America
Category:Taxa named by Gastón Aguilera
Category:Taxa named by Juan Marco Mirande
Category:Taxa named by María de las Mercedes Azpelicueta
Category:Fish described in 2009
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