Adontosternarchus
| Adontosternarchus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gymnotiformes |
| Family: | Apteronotidae |
| Genus: | Adontosternarchus M. M. Ellis in C. H. Eigenmann, 1912 |
Adontosternarchus is a genus of ghost knifefishes found in tropical South America.
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus: [1][2]
- Adontosternarchus balaenops (Cope, 1878)
- Adontosternarchus clarkae Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985
- Adontosternarchus devenanzii Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985
- Adontosternarchus duartei de Santana & Vari, 2012[2]
- Adontosternarchus nebulosus Lundberg & Cox Fernandes, 2007
- Adontosternarchus sachsi (W. K. H. Peters, 1877)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Adontosternarchus in FishBase. August 2012 version.
- 1 2 de Santana, C.D. & Vari, R.P. (2012): New Species of Adontosternarchus (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) from the Rio Purus Basin, Brazil. Copeia, 2012 (3): 535-540.
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