Aphanius punctatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontoidei

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: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Atherinomorphae Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei

Familia: Cyprinodontidae
Subfamilia: Cyprinodontinae
Genus: Aphanius
Species: Aphanius punctatus

Name

Aphanius punctatus (Heckel, 1847)

• Syntypes: NMW 15070 (5), 15156 (14), 59609 (6), 59837 (5), 76509 (7).
• Type locality: Nemek-Deria or Salt Lake, flowing into the Saadi below Schiraz, Iran. [Locality is apparently Maharlu Lake, Iran (Temori et al., 2012:56)]

Synonymy

• Lebias punctatus Heckel, 1843
• Lebias crystallodon Heckel, 1843
• Cyprinodon blanfordii Jenkins, 1910

References

• Heckel, J.J. 1847. Naturhistorischer Anhang. [Various subtitles.]. In: Russegger, J. von: Reisen in Europa, Asien und Africa, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die naturwissenschaftlichen Verhältnisse der betreffenden Länder unternommen in den Jahren 1835 bis 1841, etc. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 2(3): 207–357. Reference page. 
• Teimori, A., Esmaeili, H.R., Gholami, Z., Zarei, N. & Reichenbacher, B., 2012: Naturhistorischer Anhang. [Various subtitles.]. In: Russegger, J. von: Aphanius arakensis, a new species of tooth-carp (Actinopterygii, Cyprinodontidae) from the endorheic Namak Lake basin in Iran. Zookeys 40: 1-239. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.215.1731 Reference page. 

Selected links

• Lebias punctatus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on August 11, 2014.
• Aphanius punctatus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Aphanius punctatus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.