Moenkhausia costae

Taxonavigation

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
Subfamiliae: Pristellinae
Genus: Moenkhausia
Species: Moenkhausia costae

Name

Moenkhausia costae (Steindachner, 1907)

Syntypes: (several): MNHN 1907-0178 [ex NMW] (4); MZUT 1682 (3); NMW 57391-98 (8?), 57401-06 (6?), 57408-09 (2?) 57411 (1); ZSM 7586-87 [ex NMW 57393] (2)

Type locality: Rio São Francisco, Joazeiro, Rio Grande; Cidade da Barra, Santa Rita do Rio Prato, Brazil.

Synonyms

• Tetragonopterus costae Steindachner, 1907

References

Primary references

• Steindachner, F. 1907. Über eine neue Psilichthys-Art, Ps. cameroni aus dem Flusse Cubatao im Staate S. Catharina, Brasilien. Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien v. 44 (no. 6): 82–85. BHLReference page. 

Links

• Tetragonopterus costae in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on March 22, 2016.
• Moenkhausia costae – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Moenkhausia costae in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.