Orestias ctenolepis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontoidei

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: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Atherinomorphae Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei

Familia: Cyprinodontidae
Subfamilia: Cyprinodontinae
Genus: Orestias
Species: Orestias ctenolepis

Name

Orestias ctenolepis Parenti, 1984

• Holotype: AMNH 52179. Paratypes: AMNH 52180 (8).
• Type locality: Headwaters of the Río Zapatilla, Río Camellaque, Chucuito Province, Peru.

References

• Parenti, L.R., 1984: A taxonomic revision of the Andean killifish genus Orestias (Cyprinodontiformes, Cyprinodontidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178(2): 107–214. Reference page. 

Selected links

• Orestias ctenolepis in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on September 15, 2014.
• Orestias ctenolepis – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Orestias ctenolepis in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• IUCN: Orestias ctenolepis  (Vulnerable)