''Carnegiella'' is a genus of

freshwater hatchetfish The freshwater hatchetfish are a family, Gasteropelecidae, of ray-finned fish from South and Central America. The common hatchetfish is the most popular member among fish keeping hobbyists. The family includes three genera: '' Carnegiella'' (f ...

es found in the

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...

and

Orinoco The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers approximately 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and 35% in Colombia. It is the List of rivers by discharge, f ...

basins in

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

. This genus contains some popular

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fishes.

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * '' Carnegiella marthae'' G. S. Myers, 1927 (Blackwing hatchetfish) * ''

Carnegiella myersi The pygmy hatchetfish (''Carnegiella myersi'') is a species of hatchetfish native to Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Br ...

'' Fernández-Yépez, 1950 (Pygmy hatchetfish) * ''

Carnegiella schereri ''Carnegiella schereri'', a species of freshwater hatchetfish, is native to the Amazon Basin The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributary, tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area ...

'' Fernández-Yépez, 1950 (Dwarf hatchetfish) * '' Carnegiella strigata'' ( Günther, 1864) (Marbled hatchetfish)

References

Gasteropelecidae Fish of South America {{Characiformes-stub