Moenkhausia lepidura

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: Characidae
Subfamiliae: Pristellinae
Genus: Moenkhausia
Species: Moenkhausia lepidura

Name

Moenkhausia lepidura (Kner, 1858)

Lectotype: NMW 57566. Lectotype designated by Marinho & Langeani (2016)

Type locality: Rio Guaporé, Rio Amazonas, Brazil.

Synonyms

• Tetragonopterus lepidurus Kner, 1858
• Gymnotichthys hildae Fernández-Yépez, 1950 – Marinho & Langeani, 2016

References

• Kner, R. 1858. Beiträge zur Familie der Characinen. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 30 (no. 13): 75–80. BHLReference page. 
• Kner, R. 1859. Zur Familie der Characinen. III. Folge der Ichthyologischen Beiträge. Erste Abtheilung. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 17: 137–182, Pls. 1–9; BHL Reference page. 
• Marinho, M.M.F. & Langeani, F. 2016. Reconciling more than 150 years of taxonomic confusion: the true identity of Moenkhausia lepidura, with a key to the species of the M. lepidura group (Characiformes: Characidae). Zootaxa 4107(3): 338–352. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.3.3. Reference page. 
• Marinho, M.M.F. & Langeani, F. 2016. ERRATUM MANOELA M. F. MARINHO & FRANCISCO LANGEANI (2016) Reconciling more than 150 years of taxonomic confusion: the true identity of M.enkhausia lepidura, with a key to the species of the M. lepidura group (Characiformes: Characidae). Zootaxa, 4107(3): 338–352. Zootaxa 4126(4): 600–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.4.10. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

Links

• Tetragonopterus phaeonota in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on May 4, 2016.
• Moenkhausia lepidura in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

português: Piaba

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