Phenacogrammus polli

Phenacogrammus polli is a species of fish in the African tetra family. It is found in middle Congo River basin in the Ruki River drainage, the Lomami river and the Lindi-Tshopo river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Africa. This species reaches a length of 3.2 cm (1.3 in).[1]

Phenacogrammus polli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Alestidae
Genus: Phenacogrammus
Species:
P. polli
Binomial name
Phenacogrammus polli
J. G. Lambert, 1961

Etymology

The tetra is named in honor of Belgian ichthyologist Max Poll (1908-1991).[2]

References
  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Phenacogrammus polli" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families DISTICHODONTIDAE, CITHARINIDAE, CRENUCHIDAE, ALESTIDAE and HEPSETIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 March 2022.


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