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Astyanax bourgeti is a small species of freshwater fish native to the upper Amazon river in Brazil.[1]

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  1. 20 relations: Alluvial river, Alter do Chão, Pará, Amazon River, Astyanax (fish), Astyanax abramis, Astyanax bimaculatus, Brazil, Carl H. Eigenmann, Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, Humeral spot, IUCN Red List, Jaú National Park, Louis Agassiz, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Negro (Amazon), Sexual dimorphism, Solimões River, Species complex, Tabatinga.

  2. Astyanax (fish)

Alluvial river

An alluvial river is one in which the bed and banks are made up of mobile sediment and/or soil.

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Alter do Chão, Pará

Alter do Chão is one of the administrative districts of the city of Santarém, in Pará state located on the right bank of the Tapajós.

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Amazon River

The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

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Astyanax (fish)

Astyanax is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae of the order Characiformes.

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Astyanax abramis

Astyanax abramis is a small freshwater fish from the inland rivers of South America. Astyanax bourgeti and Astyanax abramis are astyanax (fish), fish of the Amazon basin and freshwater fish of Brazil.

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Astyanax bimaculatus

The twospot astyanax (Astyanax bimaculatus), also called the two-spot tetra, is a small species of freshwater fish native to South America. Astyanax bourgeti and astyanax bimaculatus are astyanax (fish).

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Carl H. Eigenmann

Carl Henry Eigenmann (March 9, 1863 – April 24, 1927) was a German-American ichthyologist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, and his zoology students is credited with identifying and describing for the first time 195 genera containing nearly 600 species of fishes of North America and South America.

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Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation

The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (Portuguese: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, ICMBio) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm.

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Humeral spot

Humeral spot (from Latin humerus, pertaining to the shoulder) is a mark or pattern found on several species of fish, typically above the pectoral fin.

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Jaú National Park

The Jaú National Park (Parque Nacional do Jaú) is a national park located in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

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Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.

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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Portuguese Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, also known as FIOCRUZ) is a scientific institution for research and development in biological sciences located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; it is considered one of the world's main public health research institutions.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Rio Negro (Amazon)

The Rio Negro (br; Río Negro "Black River"), or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), the largest blackwater river in the world, and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Solimões River

Solimões is the name often given to upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru.

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Species complex

In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear.

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Tabatinga

Tabatinga, originally Forte de São Francisco Xavier de Tabatinga, is a municipality in the Três Fronteiras area of Western Amazonas.

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See also

Astyanax (fish)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astyanax_bourgeti