Apteronotus

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Apteronotus
200px
Black Ghost Knifefish (A. albifrons)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Apteronotus

Type species
Gymnotus albifrons
Linnaeus, 1766

Lua error in Module:Taxonbar/candidate at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Apteronotus is a genus of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae, distinguished by the presence of a tiny caudal fin. This genus is restricted to South America.

Species

There are currently 27 recognized species in this genus: [1][2][3]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Apteronotus in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  2. 2.0 2.1 de Santana, C.D. & Cox Fernandes, C. (2012): A New Species of Sexually Dimorphic Electric Knifefish from the Amazon Basin, Brazil (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). Copeia, 2012 (2): 283-292.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 de Santana, C.D. & Vari, R.P. (2013): Brown ghost electric fishes of the Apteronotus leptorhynchus species-group (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); monophyly, major clades, and revision. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168 (3): 564–596.
  4. Triques, M.L. (2011): Apteronotus acidops, new species of long snouted electric fish (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) from the upper rio Paraná basin in Brazil, with a key to the apteronotid species from the area. Vertebrate Zoology, 61 (3): 299–306.


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>