''Steatogenys elegans'', the barred knifefish, is a species of Hypopomidae (bluntnose knifefishes) found in

tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

. It is the type species of its genus. It is an

electric fish An electric fish is any fish that can generate electric fields. Most electric fish are also electroreceptive, meaning that they can sense electric fields. The only exception is the stargazer family. Electric fish, although a small minority, in ...

found in a wide range of freshwater habitats in the

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Orinoco The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wor ...

and Essequibo river basins. It reaches almost in total length.

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Hypopomidae Weakly electric fish Fish of Bolivia Freshwater fish of Brazil Freshwater fish of Colombia Freshwater fish of Ecuador Fish of Guyana Freshwater fish of Peru Fish of Venezuela Fish of the Amazon basin Fish described in 1880 Taxa named by Franz Steindachner {{gymnotiformes-stub