Xenurobrycon

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
Subfamilia: Stevardiinae
Genus: Xenurobrycon
Species: X. coracoralinae – X. heterodon – X. macropus – X. polyancistrus – X. pteropus – X. varii

Name

Xenurobrycon Myers & Miranda Ribeiro, 1945

• Type species: Xenurobrycon macropus Myers & Miranda Ribeiro, 1945

Etymology: From xenos (= strange) and oura (= tail), referring to caudal-fin glands of males that release pheromones during courtship; brycon, generalized term used in generic names of many characiform fishes, derived from bryco (= to bite, gnash teeth or eat greedily), originally an allusion to fully toothed maxillae.

References

• Myers, G.S. & Miranda Ribeiro, P. 1945. A remarkable new genus of sexually dimorphic characid fishes from the Rio Paraguay Basin in Matto Grosso. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Zoologia, Nova Série 32: 1–8.Reference page. 

Links

• Xenurobrycon 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.
• Xenurobrycon species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.