Orestias empyraeus

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

Orestias empyraeus Allen, in Eigenmann & Allen, 1942

Holotype: CAS 44195 [ex IU 15238]. Paratypes: [orig. IU 15232-46 and 15248, now CAS. CAS 44196-02 (10, 6, 66, 83, 8, 48, 23), 46155 (17), 46163 (35), 46356 (54), 48248 (50); INHS 44914 [ex IU 15239] (18), 44915 [ex IU 15238] (7); UMMZ 179288 [ex IU 15232] (4), 179289 [ex IU 15236] (24). Type mentioned in text as 120 mm from Lake Chinchaycocha, IU 15238.
Type locality: Lago Junin, Peru.

Eigenmann, C.H. & Allen, W.R., 1942: Fishes of Western South America. I. The intercordilleran and Amazonian lowlands of Peru. II. The high pampas of Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile. With a revision of the Peruvian Gymnotidae, and of the genus Orestias. University of Kentucky i-xv + 1-494, Pls. 1-22. BHL Reference page.

Orestias empyraeus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on September 17, 2014.
Orestias empyraeus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Orestias empyraeus in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.