Biology:Pterolebias zonatus
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Short description: Species of fish
| Pterolebias zonatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Rivulidae |
| Genus: | Pterolebias |
| Species: | P. zonatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pterolebias zonatus G. S. Myers, 1935
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Gnatholebias zonatus (Myers, 1935) | |
Pterolebias zonatus is a species of fish in the family Aplocheilidae endemic to the Orinoco River basin in Venezuela where it is found in open waters exposed to sunlight. This species grows to a length of 10 cm (3.9 in). It is found in the aquarium trade. This species is often included in the genus Gnatholebias, of which it has been designated the type species.[2] This species, and Pterlolebias hoignei, are rather distantly related to the other species in Pterolebias and some workers argue that their inclusion in that genus makes it paraphyletic.[3]
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Pterolebias zonatus" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Rivulidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Rivulidae.
- ↑ Costa, W.J.E.M. (2005). "The Neotropical annual killifish genus Pterolebias Garman (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): phylogenetic relationships, descriptive morphology, and taxonomic revision". Zootaxa 1067 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1067.1.1.
Wikidata ☰ Q3755526 entry
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