Biology:Pseudorestias

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Pseudorestias
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Cyprinodontidae
Genus: Pseudorestias
Arratia, Vila, Lam, Guerrero & Quezada-Romegialli, 2017
Species:
P. lirimensis
Binomial name
Pseudorestias lirimensis
Arratia, Vila, Lam, Guerrero & Quezada-Romegialli, 2017

Pseudorestias is a monospecific genus in the family Cyprinodontidae, the pupfishes.[1] The only species in the genus is Pseudorestias lirimensis which was described in 2017. from a type locality given as "Charvinto Creek near to the thermal pond Baños San Andrés about 6 km E of Lirima village, Chancacolla River, Tarapacá Region, northern Chile". It was also found in the Chancacolla River.[2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Pseudorestias lirimensis" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  2. Gloria Arratia; Irma Vila; Natalia Lam; Claudia Jimena Guerrero; Claudio Quezada-Romegialli (2017). "Morphological and taxonomic descriptions of a new genus and species of killifishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) from the high Andes of northern Chile". PLOS ONE 12 (8): e0181989. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181989. PMID 28792510. Bibcode2017PLoSO..1281989A. 

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