Parecbasis

Parecbasis is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.^[2] It contains the single species Parecbasis cyclolepis, found in the Western Amazon Basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.^[1]

Parecbasis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily:	Hyphessobryconinae
Genus:	Parecbasis C. H. Eigenmann, 1914[2]
Species:	P. cyclolepis
Binomial name
Parecbasis cyclolepis C. H. Eigenmann, 1914[3]