Orestias frontosus

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 frontosus

Name

Orestias frontosus Cope, 1876

• Syntypes: ANSP 21555-56 (2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:96.
• Type locality: Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.

Synonymy

• Orestias agassii pequeni Tchernavin, 1944

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1876: Note on the ichthyology of Lake Titicaca. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Second series. 8 (pt 2, art. 7): 185–187. Reference page. 
• Tchernavin, V., 1944: A revision of the subfamily Orestiinae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 114(1-2): 140-233. Reference page. 

Links

• Orestias frontosus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on September 21, 2014.
• Orestias frontosus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Orestias frontosus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.