Moenkhausia ovalis

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 ovalis

Name

Moenkhausia ovalis (Günther, 1868)

Holotype (unique): BMNH 1867.6.13.87.

Type locality: Xeberos, Peru.

Synonyms

• Tetragonopterus ovalis Günther, 1868

References

Primary references

• Günther, A. 1868. Diagnoses of some new freshwater fishes from Surinam and Brazil, in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4 1(6): 475–481. DOI: 10.1080/00222936808695733 . BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Tetragonopterus ovalis in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on May 3, 2016.
• Moenkhausia ovalis – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Moenkhausia ovalis in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.