Black-winged hatchetfish

Black-winged hatchetfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Gasteropelecidae
Genus: Carnegiella
Species:
C. marthae
Binomial name
Carnegiella marthae

The black-winged hatchetfish (Carnegiella marthae) is a freshwater ray-finned fish native to South America.[1]

George Myers named this fish after his first wife Martha.[2]

  1. ^ Aquarium Fish by Dick Mills from DK Handbooks
  2. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order Characiformes: Families Iguanodectidae, Triportheidae, Bryconidae, Chalceidae and Gasteropedecidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 August 2021.