Pyrrhulina
Pyrrhulina is a genus of freshwater fishes found in tropical South America. Several of these species are popular aquarium fish.[1]
| Pyrrhulina | |
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| Pyrrhulina sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Lebiasinidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyrrhulininae |
| Genus: | Pyrrhulina Valenciennes, 1846 |
| Type species | |
| Pyrrhulina filamentosa Valenciennes, 1847 | |
| Species | |
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]
- Pyrrhulina australis C. H. Eigenmann & C. H. Kennedy, 1903
- Pyrrhulina beni N. E. Pearson, 1924
- Pyrrhulina brevis Steindachner, 1876
- Pyrrhulina eleanorae Fowler, 1940
- Pyrrhulina elongata Zarske & Géry, 2001
- Pyrrhulina filamentosa Valenciennes, 1847
- Pyrrhulina laeta (Cope, 1872) (halfbanded pyrrhulina)
- Pyrrhulina lugubris C. H. Eigenmann, 1922
- Pyrrhulina marilynae Netto-Ferreira & Marinho, 2013[3]
- Pyrrhulina maxima C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889
- Pyrrhulina melanostoma (Cope, 1870) (blackmouth pyrrhulina)
- Pyrrhulina obermulleri G. S. Myers, 1926
- Pyrrhulina rachoviana G. S. Myers, 1926 (fanning pyrrhulina)
- Pyrrhulina semifasciata Steindachner, 1876
- Pyrrhulina spilota S. H. Weitzman, 1960
- Pyrrhulina stoli Boeseman, 1953
- Pyrrhulina vittata Regan, 1912 (banded pyrrhulina)
- Pyrrhulina zigzag Zarske & Géry, 1997
Classification / Names
Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Characiformes (Characins) > Lebiasinidae (Pencilfishes) > Pyrrhulininae Etymology: Pyrrhulina: Greek, pyrrhos = red, with the colour of the fire (Ref. 45335). More on authors: Eigenmann & Kennedy.[4]
Environment
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical [5]
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm 2.2 Max length : 5.0 cm SL male/unsexed. [6]
References
- Günther Sterba, ed. (1983). "Pyrrhulina". The Aquarist's Encyclopaedia. Edition Leipzig.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pyrrhulina in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- 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.
- "Pyrrhulina australis". Fishbase.
- "Pyrrhulina australis". Fishbase.
- "Pyrrhulina australis".
