''Gilbertolus'' is a genus of
dogtooth characin
Cynodontidae, also known as dogtooth characins or vampire tetras, are a family (biology), family of predatory, characiform freshwater fishes from South America. This group is not very diverse, and includes only five Genus, genera and 14 species. ...
s from northwestern
South America
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, restricted to the
Atrato
Atrato is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department near the Pacific Ocean, Colombia.
Climate
Atrato has an extremely wet tropical rainforest climate (Af). The following climate data is for Yutó, the capital of the municipality.
Refere ...
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Magdalena and
Maracaibo
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basins.
Species
There are currently three described species in this genus.
* ''
Gilbertolus alatus''
(Steindachner
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, 1878)
* ''
Gilbertolus atratoensis''
L. P. Schultz, 1943
* ''
Gilbertolus maracaiboensis''
L. P. Schultz, 1943
References
Cynodontidae
Freshwater fish of Colombia
Magdalena River
Fish of Venezuela
Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann
Fish described in 1907
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