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Cynodontidae
Wallace's Payara
Hydrolycus wallacei
Cynodontid Fish beneath the Orinoco Basin
- Tropical
- Upper river
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- South America
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
MediumWallace's Payara is known from South America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Characins
- Family
- Cynodontidae
- Genus
- Hydrolycus
- Maximum length
- 36 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- South America: Negro and upper Orinoco River basins.
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