Amazonspinther
| Amazonspinther | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Spintherobolidae |
| Genus: | Amazonspinther Bührnheim, T. P. Carvalho, L. R. Malabarba & S. H. Weitzman, 2008 |
| Species: | A. dalmata
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| Binomial name | |
| Amazonspinther dalmata Bührnheim, T. P. Carvalho, L. R. Malabarba & S. H. Weitzman, 2008
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Amazonspinther is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Spintherobolidae, the piquiras. The only species in the genus is Amazonspinther dalmata, a species which is known only from the Purus and Madeira River basins in the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Rondônia.