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Poecilocharax Eigenmann 1909
Description
GENUS: POECILOCHARAX EIGENMANN, 1909
Type species: Poecilocharax bovalii Eigenmann, 1909 (by original description); now Poecilocharax bovaliorum (mandatory name correction: Fricke et al., 2021b).
Diagnosis: Poecilocharax can be distinguished from the only other crenuchin genus, Crenuchus, by the following morphological characteristics: (1) adipose fin absent (vs. present); (2) pelvic-fin rays eight, with the following formula: i,seven or i,six,i (vs. pelvic-fin rays nine or ten, with formula: i,eight or i,nine); and (3) posterior terminus of maxilla not surpassing vertical through anterior margin of the orbit (vs. posterior terminus of maxilla extending posterior to orbital margin, reaching vertical through pupils).
Notes
Published as part of Ohara, Willian M., Pastana, Murilo & Camelier, Priscila, 2023, The monophyly of Crenuchinae and description of two new species of Poecilocharax (Teleostei: Crenuchidae) based on phenotypic and genotypic evidence, pp. 442-473 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197 (2) on page 446, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac026, http://zenodo.org/record/7624812
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Crenuchidae
- Genus
- Poecilocharax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Characiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Eigenmann
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Poecilocharax Eigenmann, 1909 sec. Ohara, Pastana & Camelier, 2023
References
- Eigenmann CH. 1909. Reports on the expedition to British Guiana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Report no. 1. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guiana. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 6: 4 - 54.
- Fricke R, Eschmeyer WN, Van der Lann R, eds. 2021 b. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: genera, species, references. Available at: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp. Accessed 15 January 2021.