Hypopomidae

Hypopomidae

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Familia: Hypopomidae
Genera (6): Akawaio – Brachyhypopomus – Hypopomus – Microsternarchus – Procerusternarchus – Racenisia

Nome

• Hypopomidae Mago-Leccia, 1978: 14

Type genus: Hypopomus Gill, 1864, by original designation.

Riferimenti

Primary references

• Mago-Leccia, F. 1978. Los peces de la familia Sternopygidae de Venezuela. Acta Científica Venezolana 29: 1–89.

Additional references

• Albert, J.S. 2003. Hypopomidae (Bluntnose knifefishes). p. 494-496. In Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris Jr., C.J. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
• Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., López-Fernández, H., Taphorn, D.C., Bernard, C.R., Crampton, W.G.R. & Lovejoy, N.R. 2014. Akawaio penak, a new genus and species of Neotropical electric fish (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae) endemic to the upper Mazaruni River in the Guiana Shield. Zoologica Scripta 43(1): 24–33. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12035 Reference page. 
• Cox Fernandes, C., Nogueira, A. & Alves-Gomes, J.A. 2014. Procerusternarchus pixuna, a new genus and species of electric knifefish (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae, Microsternarchini) from the Negro River, South America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 163(1): 95–118. DOI: 10.1635/053.163.0107 Reference page. 

Collegamenti

• FishBase - Hypopomidae