Tetracentrum
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Tetracentrum is a small genus of fish
in the Ambassidae
family.
It contains the following three species:
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the Ambassidae
Ambassidae
The Asiatic glassfishes are a family, Ambassidae, of freshwater and marine fishes in the order Perciformes. The species in the family are native to the waters of Asia and Oceania and the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The family includes eight genera and about fifty species.The family was...
family.
It contains the following three species:
- Four-spined glass perchlet, Tetracentrum apogonoides (BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1851). - Kokoda glass perchletKokoda glass perchletThe kokoda glass perchlet is a species of fish in the Ambassidae family. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.-Source:* Allen, G. 1996. . Downloaded on 5 August 2007....
, Tetracentrum caudovittatus (Norman, 1935). - Honess' glass perchlet, Tetracentrum honessi (Schultz, 1945).