Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Anal soft rays: 222 - 290; Vertebrae: 96 - 99. Distance between tip of pectoral fin and origin of anal fin less than one pectoral fin length; dark oblique bands on body 18-30 (usually below 30); dark and pale oblique bands with straight borders; greatest body depth 7-11% in total length; eye diameter 33-43% of interocular distance; head length 68-78% of preanal fin distance; maximum scale rows above lateral line 12-13; precaudal vertebrae 31-32; caudal vertebrae 65-67.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gymnotiformes

Family: Gymnotidae

Genus: Gymnotus

Species: Gymnotus pedanopterus Mago-Leccia, 1994

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274)

Habitat

benthopelagic