Orestias chungarensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Atherinomorphae Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei

Familia: Cyprinodontidae
Subfamilia: Cyprinodontinae
Genus: Orestias
Species: Orestias chungarensis

Name

Orestias chungarensis Vila & Pinto, 1987

• Holotype: MNHNC 11210. Paratypes: MNHNC 11211 (20).
• Type locality: Western littoral region of Lake Chungará, Chile.

References

• Vila, I. & Pinto, M. 1984. A new species of killifish (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae) from the Chilean Altiplano. Revue d'Hydrobiologie Tropicale 19(3-4): 233-239. PDF. Reference page. 

Selected links

• Orestias chungarensis in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2026. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on September 11, 2014.
• Orestias chungarensis – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Orestias chungarensis in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2026. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• IUCN: Orestias chungarensis  (Vulnerable)