bio.wikisort.org - Animal

Carnegiella schereri, a species of freshwater hatchetfish, is native to the Amazon Basin in Peru and Brazil.[1] It is often sold for home aquariums as silver hatchetfish, dwarf hatchetfish, or Scherer's hatchetfish, and grows to about 2.6 centimeters (1 inch).[2]

Carnegiella schereri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Gasteropelecidae
Genus:	Carnegiella
Species:	C. schereri
Binomial name
Carnegiella schereri Fernández-Yépez, 1950

Named in honor of William G. Scherer, an Evangelical Missionary at Pebas, Peru, who collected the type specimen and shared his collection of fishes from the Peruvian Amazon.[3]

References

---