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Nannostomus digrammus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Characiformes

Genus
  
Nannostomus

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Lebiasinidae

Higher classification
  
Pencil fish

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Pencil fish, Nannostomus harrisoni, Nannostomus espei, Nannostomus anduzei, Nannostomus minimus

Nannostomus digrammus, commonly known as the twostripe pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the Lebiasinidae family of characins. They were first described in 1913 by Henry Weed Fowler and are fairly typical of members of this genus being small, elongated fish with prominent horizontal stripes, in this case limited to two dominant stripes, usually maroon in color. They are recorded as native to Brazil and Guyana, where they occur fairly widely, but are seen only occasionally in the aquarium trade.

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Nannostomus digrammus Wikipedia