''Xenurobrycon polyancistrus'' is a species of characid fish of the subfamily Glandulocaudinae. A freshwater fish, it is the smallest species of

characin Characiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising the characins and their allies. Grouped in 18 recognized families, more than 2000 different species are described, including the well-known piranha and tetras.; Buckup P.A.: "Relationsh ...

in its family and order. Adults can grow up to 1.4 cm long.

Distribution

Found in the gallery forest pools adjacent to rivers in savannah areas of the Rio Mamore and Rio Isiboro drainages in

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. It is also found in the Río Madre de Dios basin in

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Discovery

It was found among a collection of fishes from Bolivia sent by Gerard Loubens of the Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Laboratoire d'Ichthyologie de l'Universite de Trinidad, Estado Beni, Bolivia.

References

Characidae Fish of Bolivia Freshwater fish of Peru Fish of the Amazon basin Taxa named by Stanley Howard Weitzman Fish described in 1987 {{characiformes-stub