Hypopomidae

Hypopomidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnotiformes

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: Gymnotiformes

Familia: Hypopomidae
Genera (6): Akawaio – Brachyhypopomus – Hypopomus – Microsternarchus – Procerusternarchus – Racenisia

Name

• Hypopomidae Mago-Leccia, 1978: 14

Type genus: Hypopomus Gill, 1864, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Mago-Leccia, F. 1978. Los peces de la familia Sternopygidae de Venezuela. Acta Científica Venezolana 29: 1–89.

Additional references

• Albert, J.S. 2003. Hypopomidae (Bluntnose knifefishes). p. 494-496. In Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris Jr., C.J. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
• Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., López-Fernández, H., Taphorn, D.C., Bernard, C.R., Crampton, W.G.R. & Lovejoy, N.R. 2014. Akawaio penak, a new genus and species of Neotropical electric fish (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae) endemic to the upper Mazaruni River in the Guiana Shield. Zoologica Scripta 43(1): 24–33. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12035 Reference page. 
• Cox Fernandes, C., Nogueira, A. & Alves-Gomes, J.A. 2014. Procerusternarchus pixuna, a new genus and species of electric knifefish (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae, Microsternarchini) from the Negro River, South America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 163(1): 95–118. DOI: 10.1635/053.163.0107 Reference page. 

Links

• FishBase - Hypopomidae