Moenkhausia eigenmanni

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 eigenmanni

Name

Moenkhausia eigenmanni Géry, 1964

Holotype: USNM 198640. Paratypes: (7) ANSP 112249 (1), 139712 (1); Géry's coll. M.358 (orig. 7); MNHN 1980-1445 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:45

Type locality: Río Manacacias into upper Río Meta, at Restrepo, Colombia.

References

Primary references

• Géry, J. 1964. Preliminary description of seven new species and two new genera of characoid fishes from the Upper Rio Meta in Colombia. Tropical Fish Hobbyist v. 13 (no. 4, Jan.): 25–32, 41–48. Reference page. 
• Böhlke, E.B. 1984. Catalog of type specimens in the ichthyological collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Special publication (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) No. 14: i–viii + 1–216. Reference page. 

Links

• Moenkhausia eigenmanni in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on March 6, 2016.
• Moenkhausia eigenmanni – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Moenkhausia eigenmanni in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.