Mimagoniates sylvicola

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: Mimagoniates sylvicola

Name

Mimagoniates sylvicola Menezes & Weitzman, 1990

• Holotype: MZUSP 36612.
• Paratypes: MZUSP 28815-17 (77, 28, 42); USNM 276547 (77), 276557 (42, 2 c&s), 300633 (5), 300634 (1, c&s).

Type locality: Forest stream tributary to Atlantic, near Fazenda Embaçuaba, Município de Prado, Bahia, Brazil, 17°05'S, 39°13'W.

Etymology: silva (= forest), and cola (= to inhabit), referring to forested nature of streams where it occurs. (From The ETYFish project)

References

• Menezes, N.A. & Weitzman, S.H. 1990. Two new species of Mimagoniates (Teleostei: Characidae: Glandulocaudinae), their phylogeny and biogeography and a key to the glandulocaudin fishes of Brazil and Paraguay. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(2): 380–426.[1] Reference page. 
• Menezes, N.A. & Weitzman, S.H. 2009. Systematics of the Neotropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Neotropical Ichthyology 7(3): 295–370.PDF Reference page. 

Links

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