Heterocharax

Heterocharax sp.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Characiformes
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Subclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Superordo: Ostariophysi Ordo: Characiformes

Familia: Acestrorhynchidae
Subfamilia: Heterocharacinae
Genus: Heterocharax
Species (3): H. leptogrammus – H. macrolepis – H. virgulatus

Name

Heterocharax Eigenmann, 1912: 258, 405

• Gender: Masculine
• Type species: Heterocharax macrolepis Eigenmann, 1912
  • Type by original designation (also monotypic)

References

• Eigenmann, C.H. 1912: The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species, and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 5(1): i-xxii + 1-578, Pls. 1-103. BHL
• Oliveira, C., Avelino, G.S., Abe, K.T., Mariguela, T.C., Benine, R.C., Orti, G., Vari, R.P., & Correa e Castro, R.M. 2011: Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11: 275. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-275 

Links

• Heterocharax species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & D. Pauly (eds) (2013). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, version 10/2012.
• Heterocharax and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes,
  Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed) (2013). Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Heterocharax in Nomenclator Zoologicus

Vernacular names

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