Common hatchet

Common Hatchetfish
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Common Hatchet / Hatchetfish, Silver Hatchetfish, Black-lined Hatchetfish ...

Common HatchetfishSilver Hatchetfish ~ River Hatchetfish
Family: Gasteropelecidae
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Common Hatchetfish
Scientific Name:Gasteropelecus sternicla
Common Names:Hatchet, Common Hatchetfish, Silver Hatchetfish, River Hatchetfish Family: Gasteropelecidae
Origin: Brazil, Guyana, Surinam
Adult Size: 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) ...

Common hatchetfish
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Common hatchetfish - Gasteropelecus sternicla
The Common Hatchetfish or River Hatchetfish (Gasteropelecus sternicla) is a tropical fish belonging to the Freshwater Hatchetfish family (Gasteropelecidae).

Common Hatchetfish
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Gasteropelecus sternicla
SYN : Clupeasternicla, Thoracocharax sternicla
PD : Has a convex body. The ventral fins are very small and the back is fairly straight.

Silver Hatchet, Common Hatchetfish
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Distribution Widely found throughout Amazon River basin, Peruvian Amazon, middle Amazon, the Guianas and Venezuela.

Silver Hatchets, also known as the Common Hatchetfish, are among the more uniquely shaped species of fish. Hatchetfish have a slender body with a deep "belly" and pectoral fins that are set high on the body and attached to very powerful muscles.

Genus Gasteropelecus (Scopoli, 1777)
Silver hatchetfish, Gasteropelecus levis
Spotted hatchetfish, Gasteropelecus maculatus
Common hatchetfish, Gasteropelecus sternicla ...

See also: Water, Aquarium, Fish, Gasteropelecus Sternicla, Silver