Parapteronotus

Parapteronotus hasemani, the duckbill knifefish, is a species of ghost knifefish found in main river channels and along the margins in the Amazon basin of Brazil and Peru. It is the only member of its genus. This dark-colored knifefish reaches up to about 38 cm (15 in) in total length.[1][2]

Parapteronotus hasemani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Gymnotiformes
Family:
Apteronotidae
Genus:
Parapteronotus

Albert, 2001
Species:
P. hasemani
Binomial name
Parapteronotus hasemani
(M. M. Ellis, 1913)

Named in honor of John D. Haseman (1887-1969), field collector in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Department of Ichthyology from 1908 to 1911, who collected the type specimen.[3]

References
  1. van der Sleen, P.; J.S. Albert, eds. (2017). Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas. Princeton University Press. p. 328. ISBN 978-0691170749.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Parapteronotus hasemani" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GYMNOTIFORMES (Neotropical Knifefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 March 2021.


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