Sternarchella calhamazon

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnotiformes

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: Gymnotiformes

Familia: Apteronotidae
Genus: Sternarchella
Species: Sternarchella calhamazon

Name

Sternarchella calhamazon Lundberg et al., 2013

• Holotype: INPA 37898.
• Paratypes: 42 in 29 lots

Type locality: Brazil, Amazonas State, rio Madeira, 35 km above confluence with rio Amazonas, collected with 3 m bottom trawl in channel 14-16 m deep, 400 m off linear beach and bank, 3°35'44.2"S, 58°57'45.8"W [1].

Etymology: The name calhamazon (phonetic pronounciation CAL-YAH-MAZON) is from the Portuguese calha (= channel), plus Amazon, and is the name given to the 1992-1997 Brazilian-US collaborative ichthyological inventory of the deep river channels of the Brazilian Amazon.

References

• Lundberg, J. G., Cox Fernandes, C., Campos-Da-Paz, R. & Sullivan, J. P.; 2013: Sternarchella calhamazon n. sp., the Amazon’s most abundant species of apteronotid electric fish, with a note on the taxonomic status of Sternarchus capanemae Steindachner, 1868 (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 162: 157–173.