Priocharax ariel

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: Acestrorhynchidae
Subfamilia: Heterocharacinae
Genus: Priocharax
Species: Priocharax ariel

Name

Priocharax ariel Weitzman & Vari, 1987

• Holotype: MBUCV V-15340.
• Paratypes: (1758): AMNH 57007-08 (25, 1); BMNH 1986.2.4.1-25 (25); CAS 57944 (25); FMNH 96689 (25); MBUCV V-15341 (100); MCP; MCZ 63031 (25); MHNG; MNHN 1986-0303; MZUSP; NRM 28629 (50); NMW 81788 (25); UMMZ 213500 (35, 10 c&s); USNM 272613 thru 272619 (1249, 40 c&s).

Type locality: Caño Manu, tributary of River Casiquiare, Río Negro, Amazonas, Venezuela, 2°00'N, 66°57'W.

Etymology: an airy spirit, referring to tiny size (up to 15.1 mm SL) and translucent coloration in life. (From The ETYFish project)

References

• Weitzman, S.H. & Vari, R.P. 1987. Two new species and a new genus of miniature characid fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) from northern South America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100(3): 640–652. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Priocharax ariel in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Priocharax ariel in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.