Oligosarcus
Oligosarcus | |
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Oligosarcus jenynsii | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Characidae |
Subfamily: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | Oligosarcus Günther, 1864 |
Oligosarcus is a genus of characins from freshwater habitats in northern Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, eastern Bolivia, and southern and central Brazil (South, Southeast and Central-West regions). They reach up to 31 cm (12 in) in length and are predators that mainly feed on smaller fish.[1]
Species[]
There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- , 1987
- , , , & , 2015[2]
- Günther, 1864
- (Fowler, 1940)
- , 1987
- (G. Cuvier, 1829)
- , & , 2011
- & , 2010
- (Günther, 1864)
- & Géry, 1983
- (Steindachner, 1877)
- & , 1996
- (Steindachner, 1867)
- & Géry, 1983
- , & , 2007
- , 1945
- & Géry, 1983
- (, 1962)[3]
- , 1969
- & Géry, 1983
- , 1987
- & , 2015[3]
References[]
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Oligosarcus in FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ^ Almirón, A., Casciotta, J., Piálek, L., Doubnerová, K. & Říčan, O. (2015): Oligosarcus amome (Ostariophysi: Characidae), a new species from the río Uruguay basin, Misiones, Argentina. Zootaxa, 3915 (4): 581–590.
- ^ a b Menezes, N.A. & Ribeiro, A.C. (2015): A new species of the lowland Oligosarcus Günther species group (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characidae). Neotropical Ichthyology, 13 (3): 541-546.
Categories:
- Characidae
- Taxa named by Albert Günther
- Fish of South America
- Characiformes stubs