Moenkhausia browni

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: Moenkhausia
Species: Moenkhausia browni

Name

Moenkhausia browni Eigenmann, 1909

Holotype: FMNH 52732 [ex CM]. Paratypes: (119, CM and IU) BMNH 1911.10.31.239-140 (2)/.241-242 (2)/.243 (1); CAS 61560 [ex IU 11712] (5), 61629 [ex IU 11713] (3), 61792 [ex IU 11714] (10), 62040 [ex IU 11715] (1); FMNH 7488-90 (2, 1, 2), 52677-81 (3, 10, 1, 2, 1), 52684 (1), 53517 (5), 69585 (6), 71293 (18), 52733 (1); MCZ 30012 (2), 30014 (1); NMW 56188-89 (1, 1); CAS-SU 21830 (1), 21924-25 (2, 2); USNM 66238 (2); ZMA 110639 (1), 110649 (1).

Type locality: Atuataima Falls, Potaro River, Guyana.

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

• Moenkhausia browni in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on March 20, 2016.
• Moenkhausia browni – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Moenkhausia browni in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.