Mimagoniates

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
Subfamilia: Stevardiinae
Genus: Mimagoniates
Species: M. barberi – M. inequalis – M. lateralis – M. microlepis – M. pulcher – M. rheocharis – M. sylvicola

Name

Mimagoniates Regan, 1907

• Type species: Mimagoniates barberi Regan, 1907

Etymology: etymology not explained, presumably mimos (= imitator or mimic), described as intermediate between Cheirodon (Cheirodontinae) and Letagoniates (Aphyocharacinae), so perhaps referring to resemblance to latter genus. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Coelurichthys Miranda Ribeiro, 1908

References

• Regan, C.T. 1907. Descriptions of two new characinid fishes from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 20(119) (art. 52): 402–403. BHL Reference page. 

Links

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