Acestrorhynchus

Acestrorhynchus falcirostris

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: Acestrorhynchidae
Subfamilia: Acestrorhynchinae
Genus: Acestrorhynchus
Species (14): A. abbreviatus – A. altus – A. britskii – A. falcatus – A. falcirostris – A. grandoculis – A. heterolepis – A. isalineae – A. lacustris – A. maculipinna – A. microlepis – A. minimus – A. nasutus – A. pantaneiro

Name

Acestrorhynchus Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1903: 527

• Gender: Masculine
• Type species: Salmo falcatus Bloch, 1754
  • Type by being a replacement name for Xiphorhynchus Agassiz in Spix & Agassiz, 1829

Synonyms

• Sphyraenocharax Fowler, 1907
• Xiphorhamphus Müller & Troschel, 1844
• Xiphorhynchus Agassiz in Spix & Agassiz, 1829

References

• Eigenmann, C.H. & Kennedy, C.H. On a collection of fishes from Paraguay, with a synopsis of the American genera of cichlids. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 55: 497–537. BHL
• Oliveira, C. et al. 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 Reference page. 

Links

• Acestrorhynchus species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Acestrorhynchus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Acestrorhynchus – Taxon details on Nomenclator Zoologicus (NZ).

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Spindelsalmler
हिन्दी: असेस्त्रोरिंचस

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