Английская Википедия:Adontosternarchus

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Adontosternarchus is a genus of ghost knifefishes found in Amazon and Orinoco river basins in tropical South America. They have blunt snouts, a dark-spotted or -mottled pattern on a pale background (however, spotting/mottling can be so dense that individuals appear almost all dark) and reach up to Шаблон:Convert in total length.[1][2][3] They feed on zooplankton and can be found quite deep, with A. devenanzii recorded down to Шаблон:Convert.[1]

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[2][3]

References

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  2. 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:FishBase genus
  3. 3,0 3,1 3,2 de Santana, C.D. & Vari, R.P. (2012): New Species of Adontosternarchus (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) from the Rio Purus Basin, Brazil. Copeia, 2012 (3): 535-540.