Triportheidae

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: Triportheidae
Subfamiliae: Agoniatinae - Chalcininae - Clupeacharacinae - Triportheinae
Genera: Clupeacharax – Engraulisoma – Triportheus – †Lignobrycon

Name

Triportheidae Fowler, 1940

• Type genus: Triportheus Cope, 1872

References

• Fowler, H.W. 1940. Zoological results of the second Bolivian expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936–1937. Part I. – The fishes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 92: 43–103. Reference page. 
• Mariguela, T.C., Roxo, F.F., Foresti, F. & Oliveira, C. 2016 (Online 2015). Phylogeny and biogeography of Triportheidae (Teleostei: Characiformes) based on molecular data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 96: 130–139. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.11.018 Reference page. 
• Oliveira, C. et al. 2011: Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling. BMC evolutionary biology 11: 275. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-275 Reference page.