Leporinus vanzoi

Leporinus vanzoi is a species of anostomid fish.[1][3][4] It is endemic to Brazil and found in the Tapajós (upper Amazon basin).[1][2][3] It can grow to 11.8 cm (4.6 in) standard length.[2]

Leporinus vanzoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Anostomidae
Genus: Leporinus
Species:
L. vanzoi
Binomial name
Leporinus vanzoi
Britski & Garavello, 2005[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of herpetologist Paulo Emílio “Vanzo” Vanzolini (1924–2013), the founder of Expedição Permanente à Amazônia (EPA), which has greatly contributed to the Amazonian fish collection at the Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia in São Paulo, Brazil and to Brazilian fish studies in general. The type specimens were collected by members of the EPA under the direction of Vanzolini.[2][5]

References
  1. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). (2022). "Leporinus vanzoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T139549288A139549292. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  2. Britski, Heraldo A.; Birindelli, José L. O. (2008). "Uma nova espécie de Leporinus Agassiz,1829, da bacia Amazónica (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Anostomidae)" [New species of Leporinus Agassiz, 1829, from the Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Anostomidae)] (PDF). Comunicações do Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS. Sér. Zoologia (in Portuguese). 18 (2): 75–83.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Leporinus vanzoi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Leporinus vanzoi" in FishBase. August 2022 version.
  5. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE, HEMIODONTIDAE, ANOSTOMIDAE and CHILODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Retrieved 26 March 2022.


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