Mimagoniates rheocharis

Taxonavigation: Characiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Characiformes

Familia: Characidae
Subfamilia: Stevardiinae
Genus: Mimagoniates
Species: Mimagoniates rheocharis

Name

Mimagoniates rheocharis Menezes & Weitzman, 1990

• Holotype: MZUSO 40278.
• Paratypes: MCP 10806 (1), 13613 (7), 13616-17 (3, 83); MZUSP 40279-81 (81, 29, 1); R. M. C. Castro coll. (2); USNM 279878 (3), 270879 (89, 3 c&s), 306339 (18).

Type locality: Near Praia Grande, Rio Faxinalzinho at Mãe dos Homens, Santa Catarina, Brazil, about 29°20'S, 14°40'W. .

Etymology: rheos (= current or stream); charis (= loveliness, grace or charming), referring to stream habitat and the “beauty of the fish itself”. (From The ETYFish project)

References

• Azevedo, M.A., Fialho, C.B. & Malabarba, L.R. 2016. Reproductive strategies in two inseminating species of Glandulocaudini, Mimagoniates microlepis and Mimagoniates rheocharis (Characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae). Journal of Fish Biology 89(1): 431–444. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12876 Reference page. 
• Menezes, N.A. & Weitzman, S.H. 1990. Two new species of Mimagoniates (Teleostei: Characidae: Glandulocaudinae), their phylogeny and biogeography and a key to the glandulocaudin fishes of Brazil and Paraguay. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(2): 380–426.[1] Reference page. 
• Menezes, N.A. & Weitzman, S.H. 2009. Systematics of the Neotropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Neotropical Ichthyology 7(3): 295–370.PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Mimagoniates rheocharis in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Mimagoniates rheocharis in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.