Sindacharax

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: Alestidae
Genus: †Sindacharax
Species: S. deserti – S. greenwoodi – S. howesi – S. lepersonnei – S. lothagamensis – S. mutetii – S. omoensis

Name

• Sindacharax Greenwood & Howes, 1975: 99
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Alestes deserti Greenwood, 1972
    • Type by original designation

References

• Greenwood, P.H. & Howes, G.J. 1975: Neogene fossil fishes from the Lake Albert-Lake Edward Rift (Zaire). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology, 26 (3): 69–126.
• Stewart, K.M. 1997: A new Sindacharax (Teleostei: Characidae) from Lothagam, Kenya, and some implications for the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17 (1): 34–38. Abstract & extract
• Stewart, K.M. & Murray, A.M. 2008: Fish remains from the Plio-Pleistocene Shungura Formation, Omo River Basin, Ethiopia. Geobios, 41 (2): 283–295. DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2007.06.004
• Zanata, A.M. & Vari, R.P. 2005: The family Alestidae (Ostariophysi, Characiformes): a phylogenetic analysis of a trans-Atlantic clade. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 145: 1–144. PDF

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus