Virilia

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: Alestidae
Genus: Virilia
Species: V. pabrensis

Name

• Virilia Roberts, 1967: 253
  • Gender: feminine
  • Type species: Phenacogrammus pabrensis Roman, 1966
    • Type by original designation

References

• Roberts, T.R. 1966: Virilia, a new genus of sexually dimorphic characid fishes from West Africa, with remarks on characoids having an incomplete lateral line. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 8 (4): 251–259.
• Zanata, A.M. & Vari, R.P. 2005: The family Alestidae (Ostariophysi, Characiformes): a phylogenetic analysis of a trans-Atlantic clade. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 145: 1–144. PDF

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Virilia species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Eschmeyer, W.N., Catalog of Fishes (electronic version)