Aphanius danfordii

Aphanius danfordii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontoidei

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: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Atherinomorphae Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei

Familia: Cyprinodontidae
Subfamilia: Cyprinodontinae
Genus: Aphanius
Species: Aphanius danfordii

Name

Aphanius danfordii (Boulenger, 1890)

Lectotype: BMNH 1879.6.7.5. Paralectotype: BMNH 1879.6.7.5-12 (8?). Lectotype designated by Wildekamp et al. 1999:34 and comments made on type locality, which is regarded as "Elbistan District".

Type locality: Albistan [i.e. Elbistan-Kahramanmaras], Asia Minor.

Synonymy

• Cyprinodon danfordii Boulenger, 1890
• Lebias danfordii (Boulenger, 1890)

References

• Boulenger, G.A. 1890. Description of two new cyprinodontoid fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) 6(32): 169–170. BHL Reference page. 
• Wildekamp, R.H., Küçük, F., Ünlüsayin, M. & van Neer, W. 1999. Species and subspecies of the genus Aphanius Nardo, 1897 [sic] (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae) in Turkey. Turkish journal of zoology 23: 23–44. Reference page. 

Links

• Cyprinodon danfordii in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on August 10, 2014.
• Aphanius danfordii in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• IUCN: Aphanius danfordii  (Critically Endangered)