Deuterodon potaroensis

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: Tetragonopterinae
Genus: Deuterodon
Species: Deuterodon potaroensis

Name

Deuterodon potaroensis Eigenmann, 1909

• Originally described as Deuterodon potaroënsis.
• Holotype: FMNH 52967 [ex CM 1053]. Paratypes: (8, CM and IU) BMNH 1911.10.31.335 (1); CAS 44230-31 [ex IU 11744-45] (1, 1 not 2); FMNH 52968-69 (1, 1); MCZ 29954 (1). Type catalog: Henn 1928:64.
• Type location: Amatuk Cataract, Potaro River, Guyana.

Synonyms

• Astyanax potaroensis (Eigenmann, 1909)

References

Primary references

• Eigenmann, C.H. 1909. Reports on the expedition to British Guiana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Report no. 1. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guiana. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 6(1): 4–54. BHLReference page. 

Links

• Deuterodon potaroensis in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on December 12, 2015.
• Deuterodon potaroensis – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Deuterodon potaroensis in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.