{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | image = Nannostomus limatus Weitzman, 1978 1056149942.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn|author=Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio)|author-link= Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation|year=2022|title= ''Nannostomus limatus''|article-number= e.T139794091A139794098|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T139794091A139794098.pt|access-date=29 March 2025|lang=pt-br}}</ref> | taxon = Nannostomus limatus | authority = S. H. Weitzman, 1978 }}
'''''Nannostomus limatus''''' (from the Greek: ''nanos'' = small, and the Latin ''stomus'' = relating to the mouth; from the Latin: ''limatus'' = elegant),<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Nannostomus| month = April | year = 2013}}</ref><ref name=Smithsonian>{{cite journal| url =https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5111/SCtZ-0263-Lo_res.pdf | title = Three New Species of Fishes of the Genus ''Nannostomus'' from the Brazilian States of Para and Amazonas (Teleostei, Lebiasinidae)|author=Weitzman, Stanley H. |year=1978|journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology|volume= 263| issue = 263| pages = 1–14|doi=10.5479/si.00810282.263}}</ref><ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/lebiasinidae/ | title = Family LEBIASINIDAE Gill 1889 (Pencilfishes) | access-date= 29 March 2025 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 13 November 2024}}</ref> commonly known as the '''elegant pencilfish''', is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae.<ref>{{ITIS|id=641480 |taxon= Nannostomus limatus |accessdate=Feb 23, 2012 |format= }}</ref>
This fish was first described in 1978 by Stanley H. Weitzman, along with two other new species (''Nannostomus britskii'' and ''Nannostomus nitidus''), from a collection of specimens preserved in the São Paulo museum.<ref name=Smithsonian/> Only rarely imported and kept by aquarists, they have been recorded from the Amazonian region of Brazil, specifically near Santarém.<ref>{{FishBase |Nannostomus|limatus |month=February|year=2012}}</ref>
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limatus Category:Taxa named by Stanley Howard Weitzman Category:Fish described in 1978 Category:Fish of South America Category:Fish of the Amazon basin
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