pterophyllum

Updated: May 7, 2025

As their resemblance is very remarkable, the mistake as to their true zoological character is natural: indeed, many travellers have confounded some fresh-water fishes from the Upper Amazon of the genus of Pterophyllum with the marine genus Platax.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America