Charax

Charax

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Characiformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Characiformes

Familia: Characidae
Genus: Charax
Species (17): C. apurensis – C. awa – C. caudimaculatus – C. condei – C. delimai – C. gibbosus – C. hemigrammus – C. leticiae – C. macrolepis – C. metae – C. michaeli – C. niger – C. notulatus – C. pauciradiatus – C. rupununi – C. stenopterus – C. tectifer

Name

Charax Scopoli, 1777: 455

Type species: Salmo gibbosus Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Eigenmann (1910: 444).

References

Primary references

Scopoli, G.A. 1777. Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Prague. i-x + 1-506.

Additional references

Guimarães, E.C., de Brito, P.S., Ferreira, B.R.A. & Ottoni, F.P. 2018. A new species of Charax (Ostariophysi, Characiformes, Characidae) from northeastern Brazil. Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(1): 83–93. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.22106. Reference page.

Links

Charax – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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