Orthospinus

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
Genus: Orthospinus
Species: O. franciscensis

Name

Orthospinus Reis, 1989

Gender: masculine.

Type species: Buritia cisalpinoi Brant, 1974. Type by being a replacement name. Replacement for Buritia Brant 1974, preoccupied by Buritia Young, 1951 in Hemiptera.

References

Primary references

• Reis, R.E. 1989. Systematic revision of the neotropical characid subfamily Stethaprioninae (Pisces, Characiformes). Comunicações do Museu de Ciências de PUCRS 2(6): 3–86. Reference page.  [see page 42]
• Brant, V. 1974. Ictiofauna de Minas Gerais. VII - Um novo serrasalmídeo do estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil (Actinopterygii, Cypriniformes). Arquivos do Museu de Historia Natural Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 1: 147–153. Reference page.  [see page 148, Fig.]

Links

• Orthospinus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on August 15, 2018.
• Orthospinus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).