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Peckoltia greedoi Armbruster, Werneke & Tan, 2015

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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality of Peckoltia greedoi, Pará, río Gurupi on BR 316 at border of Pará and Maranhão. Known only from rio Gurupi drainage in Pará (Ref. 99824).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Armbruster, J.W., D.C. Werneke and M. Tan, 2015
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Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Loricariidae (Armored catfishes) > Hypostominae
Etymology: Peckoltia: Because of Gustavo Peckolt,member of the Natural History Commission of Rondon (Ref. 45335);  greedoi: Named after Greedo of Rodia, a bounty hunter killed by Han Solo in Chalmun’s Spaceport Cantina in the movie 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' (Lucasfilm, Twentieth Century Fox, 1977) with whom this species shares a remarkable resemblance..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; demersal.   Tropical

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