Rhamdia laticauda

Taxonavigation: Siluriformes

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: Siluriformes

Familia: Heptapteridae
Genus: Rhamdia
Species: Rhamdia laticauda

Name

Rhamdia laticauda (Kner, 1858)

• Syntypes: NMW 50554 (?3) not found.

Type locality: Mexico.

Etymology: From latus (= wide or broad), and cauda (= tail), based on ms. name by Heckel, allusion not explained; may refer to caudal peduncle (per Silfvergrip’s 1996 revision of the genus), which does not taper as it reaches the tail. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Pimelodus laticaudus Kner, 1858

References

• Hernández, C.L., Ortega-Lara, A., Sánchez-Garcés, G.C. & Alford, M.H. 2015. Genetic and Morphometric Evidence for the Recognition of Several Recently Synonymized Species of Trans-Andean Rhamdia (Pisces: Siluriformes: Heptapteridae). Copeia 103(3): 563–579. DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-145 Reference page. 
• Kner, R. 1858. Ichthyologische Beiträge. II. Abtheilung. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 26 (s. 373): 373–448, Pls. 1–9. BHL Reference page.