Klausewitzia
Klausewitzia ritae is a species of South American darter (family Crenuchidae) found in the upper Amazon River basin at the Peruvian/Brazilian border. It is the only member of its genus.
| Klausewitzia ritae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Crenuchidae |
| Genus: | Klausewitzia Géry, 1965 |
| Species: | K. ritae |
| Binomial name | |
| Klausewitzia ritae Géry, 1965 | |
The fish is named in honor of Rita Klausewitz (d. 1995), the wife of ichthyologist Wolfgang Klausewitz.[1]
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Klausewitzia ritae" in FishBase. October 2011 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families DISTICHODONTIDAE, CITHARINIDAE, CRENUCHIDAE, ALESTIDAE and HEPSETIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
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