Apteronotus
| Apteronotus | |
|---|---|
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| Black Ghost Knifefish (A. albifrons) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gymnotiformes |
| Family: | Apteronotidae |
| Genus: | Apteronotus Lacépède, 1800 |
| Type species | |
| Gymnotus albifrons Linnaeus, 1766 | |
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]
- Apteronotus acidops Triques, 2011[4]
- Apteronotus albifrons (Linnaeus, 1766) (Black ghost knifefish)
- Apteronotus anu de Santana & Vari, 2013[3]
- Apteronotus apurensis Fernández-Yépez, 1968
- Apteronotus baniwa de Santana & Vari, 2013[3]
- Apteronotus bonapartii (Castelnau, 1855)
- Apteronotus brasiliensis (J. T. Reinhardt, 1852)
- Apteronotus camposdapazi de Santana & Lehmann-A., 2006
- Apteronotus caudimaculosus de Santana, 2003
- Apteronotus cuchillejo (L. P. Schultz, 1949)
- Apteronotus cuchillo L. P. Schultz, 1949
- Apteronotus ellisi (Alonso de Arámburu, 1957)
- Apteronotus eschmeyeri de Santana, Maldenado-Ocampo, Severi & G. N. Mendes, 2004
- Apteronotus ferrarisi de Santana & Vari, 2013[3]
- Apteronotus galvisi de Santana, Maldenado-Ocampo & Crampton, 2007
- Apteronotus jurubidae (Fowler, 1944)
- Apteronotus leptorhynchus (M. M. Ellis, 1912) (Brown ghost knifefish)
- Apteronotus lindalvae de Santana & Cox Fernandes, 2012[2]
- Apteronotus macrolepis (Steindachner, 1881)
- Apteronotus macrostomus (Fowler, 1943)
- Apteronotus magdalenensis (Miles, 1945)
- Apteronotus magoi de Santana, Castillo G. & Taphorn, 2006
- Apteronotus mariae (C. H. Eigenmann & Fisher, 1914)
- Apteronotus milesi de Santana & Maldenado-Ocampo, 2005
- Apteronotus pemon de Santana & Vari, 2013[3]
- Apteronotus rostratus (Meek & Hildebrand, 1913)
- Apteronotus spurrellii (Regan, 1914)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Apteronotus in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 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.
- ↑ 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.