Moenkhausia jamesi
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Characiformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Characidae
Subfamiliae: Pristellinae
Genus: Moenkhausia
Species: Moenkhausia jamesi
Name
[edit]Moenkhausia jamesi Eigenmann, 1908
- Syntypes: MCZ 20734 (1), 20742 (1), 20816 (2), 20827 (1).
- Lectotype: ???
- Paralectotype: MCZ 20827 (1).
Type locality: Iça; Obidos; Lago do Maximo; Tajapuru, Amazon River, Brazil.
Etymology: in honor of philosopher-psychologist William James (1842-1910), a volunteer on the Thayer Expedition that collected type [brother of novelist Henry James]. (From The ETYFish Project)
Vernacular names
[edit]References
[edit]- Eigenmann, C.H. 1908. Preliminary descriptions of new genera and species of tetragonopterid characins. (Zoölogical Results of the Thayer Brazilian expedition.). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 52(6): 91–106. BHL Reference page.
- Petrolli, M.G. & Benine, R.C. 2015. Description of three new species of Moenkhausia (Teleostei, Characiformes, Characidae) with the definition of the Moenkhausia jamesi species complex. Zootaxa 3986(4): 401–420. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Moenkhausia jamesi in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
- Moenkhausia jamesi in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.