Pterobrycon myrnae

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
Genus: Pterobrycon
Species: Pterobrycon myrnae

Name

Pterobrycon myrnae Bussing, 1974

Holotype: LACM 33857-1. Paratypes: UCR (13 lots, 159 spec.); LACM 33858-1 through 33861-1 (orig. 6 lots, 85; now 77); MCZ 49191 (7), USNM (orig. 6 lots, now 9 lots, 68 or 71). Type catalog: Vari & Howe 1991:36.

Type locality: Río Rincón drainage 2 kilometers west of Rincón, Osa Peninsula, Quebrada Aguabuena, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, elevation 30 meters.

Synonyms

• Pristis myrnae (Bussing, 1974)

References

Primary references

• Bussing, W.A. 1974. Pterobrycon myrnae, a remarkable new glandulocaudine characid fish from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical 22(1): 135–159. 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

• Pterobrycon myrnae in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on May 16, 2016.
• Pterobrycon myrnae – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Pterobrycon myrnae in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.