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Pterophyllum altum Pellegrin, 1903

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Pellegrin, J. (1903). Description de Cichlidés nouveax de la collection du Muséum. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 1).</em> v. 9 (no. 3): 120-125. [Also as a separate, pp. 1-6.].

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Cichlidae
genus
Pterophyllum
species
Pterophyllum altum

Name

Homonyms
Pterophyllum altum Pellegrin, 1903
Common names
Acará-bandeira-do-Orinoco in Portuguese
Altum Angel in English
Altum Angelfish in English
Altum-skalare in Danish
Angel Fish in English
Orinoco Angelfish in English
deep angelfish in language.
deep angelfish in English
deep angelfish in English
lippulehtikala in Finnish
skalára vysoká in Czech
Żaglowiec wysoki in Polish
Высокая скалярия in Russian
Angel Fish in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Cala, P. 1977. Los peces de la Orinoquía colombiana, Lista preliminar anotada. Lozanía (Acta Zoológica Colombiana) 24: 1-21.
  2. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  3. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  4. Pellegrin, J. (1903). Description de Cichlidés nouveax de la collection du Muséum. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 1).</em> v. 9 (no. 3): 120-125.
  5. Riehl, R., and H. A. Baensch, 1989: null. Aquarium Atlas. 992.
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