Biology:Psalidodon
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Psalidodon is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae of the order Characiformes. Some of these fish, like many of their relatives, are kept as aquarium pets and known collectively as tetras.
They are all endemic to freshwater habitats in South America, where they are locally called Mojarra or Lambari.
Taxonomy and systematics
This genus was resurrected from synonymy with Astyanax in 2020.[1]
Species
These are the recognized species in this genus:[2][3]
- Psalidodon endy (Eigenmann & McAtee, 1907)
- (Myers, 1927) (Mirande, Aguilera & Azpelicueta, 2006)
- Psalidodon erythropterus (Holmberg, 1891)
- Psalidodon fasciatus Psalidodon bifasciatus
- (Cuvier, 1819) Psalidodon goyanensis
- (P. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1944) Psalidodon gymnodontus
- (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010) Eigenmann, 1911
- Psalidodon gymnogenys (Eigenmann, 1911)
- Psalidodon hamatus Psalidodon biotae
- (Bertaco & Malabarba, 2005) Psalidodon henseli
- (de Melo & Buckup, 2006) (Terán, Butí & Mirande, 2017)
- Psalidodon anisitsi (Castro & Vari, 2004)
- (Miquelarena, Protogino & López, 2005) Psalidodon puka
- Psalidodon ita Psalidodon rioparanaibanus
- (Almirón, Azpelicueta & Casciotta, 2002) Psalidodon xavante
- Psalidodon jequitinhonhae Psalidodon bockmanni
- (Steindachner, 1877) (Zanata & Camelier, 2009)
- Psalidodon kalunga Psalidodon rutilus
- (Bertaco & Carvalho, 2010) Psalidodon scabripinnis
- Psalidodon langeanii (Vari & Castro, 2007)
- (Lima & Moreira, 2003) Psalidodon varzeae
- Psalidodon laticeps (Britski, 1964)
- (Cope, 1894) Psalidodon serratus
- Psalidodon leonidas Psalidodon brachypterygium
- (Azpelicueta, Casciotta & Almirón, 2002) Psalidodon troya
- Psalidodon marionae Psalidodon uaiso
- (Eigenmann, 1911) Psalidodon alleni
- (Eigenmann, 1907) (Bertaco & Malabarba, 2001)
- (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010) Psalidodon ojiara
- (Azpelicueta & Garcia, 2000) Psalidodon chico
- (Casciotta, Almirón & Azpelicueta, 2005) Psalidodon parahybae
- (Eigenmann, 1908) (Casciotta & Almirón, 2004)
- (Eigenmann, 1914) Psalidodon pellegrini
- (Eigenmann, 1907) Psalidodon correntinus
- Teixeira, Salvador, Mirande & Lima, 2025 Psalidodon powelli
- Psalidodon argentum (Holmberg, 1891)
- (Mirande, Aguilera & Azpelicueta, 2007) Psalidodon pynandi
- (Casciotta, Almirón, Bechara, Roux & Ruíz Díaz, 2003) Psalidodon cremnobates
- Alves, Oliveira, Pasa & Kavalco, 2020 Psalidodon rivularis
- (Lütken, 1875) (Bertaco & Malabarba, 2001)
- (Jenyns, 1842) Psalidodon saguazu
- (Casciotta, Almirón & Azpelicueta, 2003) Psalidodon crenuchoides
- (Jenyns, 1842) Psalidodon schubarti
- (Salgado, 2021) (Zarske & Géry, 1999)
- (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010) Psalidodon togoi
- (Miquelarena & López, 2006) Psalidodon dissensus
- (Azpelicueta, Casciotta & Almirón, 2002) Psalidodon tumbayaensis
- (Miquelarena & Menni, 2005) (Lucena & Thofehrn, 2013)[4]
- (Carvalho & Langeani, 2013) Psalidodon uberaba
- Serra & Langeani, 2015 Psalidodon dissimilis
- (Abilhoa & Duboc, 2007) Psalidodon vermilion
- Psalidodon balbus (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010)
- (Garutti & Venere, 2009) Psalidodon xiru
- [[(Lucena, Castro & Bertaco, 2013)[4]|(Lucena, Castro & Bertaco, 2013)[4]]] Psalidodon eigenmanniorum
- Psalidodon pessalii Psalidodon paranae
- Psalidodon pampa (Cope, 1894)
- Psalidodon minor Psalidodon hermosus
References
- ↑ Guillermo E. Terán; Mauricio F. Benitez; J. Marcos Mirande (2020). "Opening the Trojan horse: phylogeny of Astyanax, two new genera and resurrection of Psalidodon (Teleostei: Characidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (4): 1217–1234. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa019.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Species in the genus Psalidodon". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=species&genus=Psalidodon.
- ↑ Bailly, Nicolas (2015). "Psalidodon Eigenmann, 1911". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=270548.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Three new species of Astyanax from drainages of southern Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)". Neotropical Ichthyology 11 (3): 537–552. 2013. doi:10.1590/s1679-62252013000300007.
Further reading
- Kavalco, Karine Frehner, Rubens Pazza, and Lurdes Foresti de Almeida-Toledo. "Astyanax bockmanni Vari and Castro, 2007: an ambiguous karyotype in the Astyanax genus." Genetica 136.1 (2009): 135–139.
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