Moenkhausia simulata

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 simulata

Name

Moenkhausia simulata (Eigenmann in Pearson, 1924:41)

Syntypes: CAS 62100 [ex IU 15860] (orig. 10, now 6), MCZ 31875 [ex IU 16860] (2), USNM 167811 [ex IU 15860] (2). Type catalog: Vari & Howe 1991:30.

Type locality: Creek at Puerto Bermudez, Río Marañon system, Peru.

Synonyms

• Astyanax simulatus Eigenmann, 1924

References

Primary references

• Pearson, N.E. 1924. The fishes of the eastern slope of the Andes. I. The fishes of the Rio Beni basin, Bolivia, collected by the Mulford expedition. Indiana University Studies 11(64): 1–83, Pls. 1–12.Reference page. 
• Vari, R.P. & Howe, J.C. 1991. Catalog of type specimens of Recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 1. Characiformes (Teleostei, Ostariophysi). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 517: 1–52. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.517 Reference page. 

Links

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