Color Variation and Minute Differences Make Chanchita Hard to Identify (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Color Variation and Minute Differences Make Chanchita Hard to Identify

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Chanchita can be a wide range of colors, making them difficult to distinguish from closely related species. Researchers had to examine CT scans to differentiate the chanchita from the similar-looking black acara.

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Robert Robins/Florida Museum

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