Brycinus
Brycinus | |
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Brycinus longipinnis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Alestidae |
Genus: | Brycinus Valenciennes, 1850 |
Type species | |
Brycinus macrolepidotus Valenciennes, 1850
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Brycinus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Alestiidae. Like other "African characids", they were formerly included in the Characidae but are actually somewhat more distantly related Characiformes.[1]
Like some other Alestiidae, they are called robber tetras due to their bold and rather carnivorous habits. They are not infrequently kept as aquarium fishes and in their requirements resemble the South American tetras of the Characidae. Unlike these, Brycinus are not well-suited to accompany delicate fishes however and are better kept with dwarf cichlids and similar small but robust companions.
Species[]
There are currently 36 recognized species in this genus:
- (Fowler, 1936)
- Brycinus affinis (Günther, 1894) (Red-fin robber)
- (Nichols & , 1953)
- (Boulenger, 1903)
- (Boulenger, 1899)
- (Boulenger, 1903)
- (Nichols & Griscom, 1917)
- ( & , 1981)
- (T. R. Roberts & , 1976)
- Géry & , 1977
- , , & , 2016 [2]
- Brycinus ferox ( & , 1982) (Large-toothed Lake Turkana robber)
- Géry, 1995
- (Boulenger, 1899) (Pink-fin robber)
- (Boulenger, 1905)
- (W. K. H. Peters, 1852)
- (Boulenger, 1903)
- Brycinus jacksonii (Boulenger, 1912) (Victoria robber)
- (Günther, 1896)
- Brycinus lateralis (Boulenger, 1900) (Striped robber)
- (Günther, 1867)
- Brycinus longipinnis (Günther, 1864) (Long-fin tetra)
- (, 1966)
- Valenciennes, 1850 (True big-scale tetra)
- Brycinus minutus ( & , 1982) (Dwarf Lake Turkana robber)
- (, 1974)
- (Rüppell, 1832) (Nurse tetra)
- (Boulenger, 1903)
- (Boulenger, 1923)
- (Pellegrin, 1906)
- Brycinus rhodopleura (Boulenger, 1906)
- Brycinus sadleri (Boulenger, 1906) (Sadler's robber)
- (Boulenger, 1912)
- (Günther, 1867)
- (, 1911)
- (Pellegrin, 1901)
References[]
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Brycinus in FishBase. January 2016 version.
- ^ Decru, E., Vreven, E., Sadio, O. & Snoeks, J. (2016): Brycinus epuluensis, a new species from the Epulu River (Congo basin), Africa (Teleostei: Alestidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (1): 49-60.
Categories:
- Brycinus
- Fish of Africa
- Characiformes stubs