Boulengerella
Appearance
Boulengerella | |
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Boulengerella maculata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Ctenoluciidae |
Genus: | Boulengerella C. H. Eigenmann, 1903 |
Boulengerella is a genus of pike-characins from tropical South America, found in the Amazon Basin, Orinoco, and rivers of the Guiana Shield. Boulengerella was named after the Belgian ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger.[1] The currently described species are:
- Boulengerella cuvieri (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (bicuda)
- Boulengerella lateristriga (Boulenger, 1895) (striped pike-characin)
- Boulengerella lucius (G. Cuvier, 1816) (golden pike-characin)
- Boulengerella maculata (Valenciennes, 1850) (spotted pike-characin)
- Boulengerella xyrekes Vari, 1995
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Boulengerella". FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ^ Taphorn, Donald Charles (1990). Characiform fishes of the Apure River drainage, Venezuela. p. 673.