Opsaridium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata 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: Cypriniformes Superfamilia: Cyprinoidea

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Danioninae
Genus: Opsaridium

Species (12): O. boweni – O. engrauloides – O. leleupi – O. loveridgii – O. maculicauda – O. microcephalum – O. microlepis – O. peringueyi – O. splendens – O. tweddleorum – O. ubangiense – O. zambezense

Name

• Opsaridium Peters, 1854

Type species: Leuciscus zambezensis Peters, 1852.

References

• Liao, T. Y., Arroyave, J. & Stiassny, M. L. J.; (in press): Diagnosis of Asian Raiamas (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Chedrina) with comments on chedrin relationships and previously proposed diagnostic characters for Opsaridium and Raiamas. Ichthyological Research, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s10228-012-0296-9 abstract
• Peters, W. (C. H.); 1854: Mittheilung über die Süsswasserfische von Mossambique. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1853: 783.
• Opsaridium and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes,
  Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2021. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.