Gilchristella

Taxonavigation: Clupeoidei

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: Clupei Superordo: Clupeomorpha Ordo: Clupeiformes Subordo: Clupeoidei

Familia: Clupeidae
Subfamilia: Dussumieriinae
Genus: Gilchristella
Species: G. aestuaria

Name

Gilchristella Fowler 1935

• Type species: Spratelloides aestuarius Gilchrist, 1913

Etymology: –ella, diminutive connoting endearmant, in honor of the late John Dow Fisher Gilchrist (1866-1926), “author of many important papers on the fishes of South Africa,” and author of type species, G. aestuaria. (From The ETYFish Project)

Synonyms

• Pellonulops Smith, 1949

References

• Fowler, H. W. 1935. South African fishes received from Mr. H. W. Bell-Marley in 1935. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 87: 361–408. Reference page. 

Links

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