Phalloceros enneaktinos

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Phalloceros enneaktinos, the nine ray toothcarp, is a species of poeciliid fish native to Brazil.

{{cite journal|author=Lucinda, P.H.F.|year= 2008|title= Systematics and biogeography of the genus Phalloceros Eigenmann, 1907 (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae), with the description of twenty-one new species|journal= Neotrop. Ichthyol. |volume=6|issue=2|pages=113–158|doi= 10.1590/S1679-62252008000200001}}

Distribution

Phalloceros enneaktinos is found in Brazil and is known only from where the type localityis located in the Córrego da Toca do Boi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Size

The females of this species grow to a total length of {{convert|3.6|cm|in}}, while males remain smaller at {{convert|2.4|cm|in}}.

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Habitat

The fish live in tropical freshwater; and are pelagic.

Etymology

The fish is named in Latin = enneas meaning nine; aktinos, rays, referring to number of the dorsal-fin rays in both sexes.

{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cyprinodontiformes4/ | title = Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE | access-date= 16 February 2025 | 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

Category:Poeciliidae

Category:Freshwater fish of South America

Category:Freshwater fish of Brazil

Category:Taxa named by Paulo Henrique Franco Lucinda

Category:Fish described in 2008