Rhinosternarchus

Rhinosternarchus iis a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sternopygidae, the glass knifefishes. The only species in the genus is Rhinosternarchus goajira. This fish is found in the Lake Maracaibo basin in Colombia and Venezuela.^[2][3] Until 2021, it was placed in the genus Eigenmannia, but phylogenetic studies found it to be a distinct lineage most closely related to Archolaemus.^[4][5]

Rhinosternarchus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gymnotiformes
Family:	Sternopygidae
Subfamily:	Eigenmanniinae
Genus:	Rhinosternarchus Dutra, Peixoto, Abrahão, Wosiacki, Menezes & de Santana, 2021
Species:	R. goajira
Binomial name
Rhinosternarchus goajira (L. P. Schultz, 1949)
Synonyms
Eigenmannia goajira L. P. Schultz, 1949 Distocyclus goajira (L. P. Schultz, 1949)