Orestias mooni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontoidei

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

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

Name

Orestias mooni Tchernavin, 1944

• Holotype: BMNH 1944.6.6.503. Paratypes: (35) BMNH 1944.6.6.504-520 (18), 1944.6.6.522 (1); USNM 133139 (1).
• Type locality: Cota Bay in Puno Bay, Lake Titicaca, Peru, depth 23 meters.

References

Primary references

• Tchernavin, V., 1944: A revision of the subfamily Orestiinae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 114(1-2): 140-233. Reference page. 

Links

• Orestias mooni in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on September 20, 2014.
• Orestias mooni – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Orestias mooni in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.