Hemigrammus lunatus

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: Hemigrammus
Species: Hemigrammus lunatus

Name

Hemigrammus lunatus Durbin, 1918, in Eigenmann, 1918

• Holotype: MCZ 20964 (1 of 3). Paratypes: CAS 42679 [ex IU 12649 & MCZ 20964] (1); MCZ 20964 (2 of 3), 89963 (1, missing).
• Type locality: Amazon River basin.

Synonyms

• Hyphessobrycon maxillaris Fowler, 1932
• Hemigrammus maxillaris (Fowler, 1932)

Primary references

• Eigenmann, C.H., 1918: The American Characidae [Part 2]. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 43 (pt 2): 103–208, Pls. 9–11, 13, 17–29, 33, 78–80, 93. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Hemigrammus lunatus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on November 24, 2015.
• Hemigrammus lunatus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Hemigrammus lunatus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.