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Torrente-Vilara, Gislene; Cella-Ribeiro, Ariana; Hauser, MarĂlia; Röpke, Cristhiana; Freitas, Maria Helena; Doria, Carolina
Rodrigues da Costa; Zuanon, Jansen (10 May 2018).
333:), named it this because the preserved specimen's scales were copper-colored ("sometimes golden") when preserved in alcohol, though its scales are silvery in life.
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536:"Taxonomic revision of the South American fish genus Chalceus Cuvier (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) with the description of three new species"
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842:"Spatial segregation between Chalceus guaporensis and Chalceus epakros (Osteichthyes: Characiformes) in the Madeira River, Amazon Basin"
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633:Zanata, Angela M. and Vari, Richard P.
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943:"Pink-tail Chalceus Species Profile"
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274:are also alike in that they lack a
260:is incredibly visually similar to
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890:"Chalceus erythrurus (Tucanfish)"
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818:. California Academy of Sciences
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286:. C. epakros is the smallest
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575:"Chalceus, Cuvier, 1817"
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365:. Upon study in 2005,
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