Pyrrhulina
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| Pyrrhulina sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Lebiasinidae |
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| Genus: | Pyrrhulina Valenciennes, 1846 |
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Valenciennes, 1847
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Pyrrhulina is a genus of freshwater fishes found in tropical South America. Several of these species are popular aquarium fish.[1]
Pyrrhulina is closely related to Copeina and Copella, although it is distinguished from the former by having only one row of teeth (Copeina spp. have two). When the genus Copella was established, many species were removed from the genus Pyrrhulina and placed there, because differences in the maxillary bones in the males had been detected. Copella species are slimmer and more elongated than those species that remained in the genus Pyrrhulina.
Species[]
The 18 currently recognized species in this genus are:[2][3]
- C. H. Eigenmann & , 1903
- N. E. Pearson, 1924
- Steindachner, 1876
- Pyrrhulina eleanorae Fowler, 1940
- Pyrrhulina elongata & Géry, 2001
- Valenciennes, 1847
- Pyrrhulina laeta (Cope, 1872) (halfbanded pyrrhulina)
- C. H. Eigenmann, 1922
- Pyrrhulina marilynae & , 2013[3]
- C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889
- (Cope, 1870) (blackmouth pyrrhulina)
- G. S. Myers, 1926
- Pyrrhulina rachoviana G. S. Myers, 1926 (fanning pyrrhulina)
- Steindachner, 1876
- S. H. Weitzman, 1960
- , 1953
- Regan, 1912 (banded pyrrhulina)
- Pyrrhulina zigzag Zarske & Géry, 1997
References[]
- ^ , ed. (1983). "Pyrrhulina". The Aquarist's Encyclopaedia. Edition Leipzig.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pyrrhulina in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- ^ a b Netto-Ferreira, A.L. & Marinho, M.M.F. (2013): New species of Pyrrhulina (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the Brazilian Shield, with comments on a putative monophyletic group of species in the genus. Zootaxa, 3664 (3): 369–376.
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