Gonorhynchus macmahoni

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei
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: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Labeoninae
Genus: Gonorhynchus
Species: Gonorhynchus macmahoni

Name

Gonorhynchus macmahoni (Zugmayer, 1912)

Syntypes: NMW 81256 [ex ZSM] (1) not found; ZSM [old collection] (orig. 13) destroyed in WWII.

Type locality: Dasht River, near Suntsar and Turbat, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan.

Etymology: patronym not identified; probably in honor of British diplomat and Indian Army officer Arthur Henry McMahon (1862-1949), who asked Zugmayer to establish a collection of marine fishes for a national museum in Quetta, Pakistan [note latinization of “Mc” to “Mac”]. (From: ETYFish project)

Synonyms

Labeo macmahoni Zugmayer, 1912
- Crossocheilus macmahoni (Zugmayer, 1912)

References

Ciccotto, P.J. & Page, L.M. 2016. Revised diagnosis of the genus Gonorhynchus McClelland (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Labeonini) with redescription of G. latius (Hamilton) and revalidation of G. wattanah (Sykes). Zootaxa 4127(3): 471–492. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.3.4. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Zugmayer, E. 1912. Eight new fishes from Baluchistan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 8) 10(60): 595-599. BHL Reference page.

Links

Gonorhynchus macmahoni in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Gonorhynchus macmahoni in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.