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Lacantún

One profile names the Lacantún. That is what has been written, not what lives there.

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Basin

Also in the Usumacinta basin

That fish is also recorded from

Runs through

Specimen from the Río Usumacinta basin, Chiapas Province, southern Mexico.

Hyphessobrycon compressusMayan Tetra

Characidae · Meek, 1904

Max length
45mm SL1.8in SL
Tank
not recorded
Temp
20–26°C68–79°F
pH
6.5–8.0

H. compressus is the type species of the genus Hyphessobrycon but is not well-known in the ornamental trade. Hyphessobrycon was raised by Durbin in Eigenmann (1908) as a subgenus of Hemigrammus, differing from the latter by the absence of scales on the caudal-fin.

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