Characidium
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Banded ground tetra ( Characidium fasciatum ) in an aquarium at Leipzig Zoo |
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Characidium is the most species-rich genus from the family of the magnificent and ground tetra (Crenuchidae). It occurs from Panama to northern Argentina.
features
Characidium species are small, elongated fish that can reach a length of up to 8 cm. Characteristic features of the genus are the edentulous maxillary (an upper jawbone), a fully developed lateral line , an only rudimentary first dorsal fin ray and large pectoral fins with the fin formula 3-5 / 6-12.
species
There are almost 60 species, some of which have only been poorly diagnosed .
- Characidium alipioi Travassos, 1955
- Characidium amaila Lujan, Agudelo-Zamora, Taphorn, Booth & López-Fernández, 2013
- Characidium bahiense Almeida, 1971
- Characidium bimaculatum Fowler, 1941
- Characidium boavistae Steindachner, 1915
- Characidium boehlkei Géry, 1972
- Characidium bolivianum Pearson, 1924
- Characidium borellii (Boulenger, 1895)
- Characidium brevirostre Pellegrin, 1909
- Characidium caucanum Eigenmann, 1912
- Characidium chupa Schultz, 1944
- Characidium clistenesi Melo & Espíndola, 2016
- Characidium crandellii Steindachner, 1915
- Characidium cricarense Malanski et al., 2019
- Characidium declivirostre Steindachner, 1915
- Characidium deludens Zanata & Camelier, 2015
- Characidium etheostoma Cope, 1872
- Characidium etzeli Zarske & Géry, 2001
- Characidium fasciatum Reinhardt, 1867 , type species
- Characidium gomesi Travassos, 1956
- Characidium grajahuensis Travassos, 1944
- Characidium hasemani Steindachner, 1915
- Characidium heinianum Zarske & Géry, 2001
- Characidium helmeri Zanata et al., 2015
- Characidium interruptum Pellegrin, 1909
- Characidium japuhybense Travassos, 1949
- Characidium kamakan Zanata & Camelier, 2015
- Characidium lagosantense Travassos, 1947
- Characidium lanei Travassos, 1967
- Characidium laterale (Boulenger, 1895)
- Characidium lauroi Travassos, 1949
- Characidium litorale Leitão & Buckup, 2014
- Characidium longum Taphorn, Montaña & Buckup, 2006
- Characidium macrolepidotum (Peters, 1868)
- Characidium marshi Breder, 1925
- Characidium nana Mendoça & Netto-Ferreira, 2015
- Characidium occidentale Buckup & Reis, 1997
- Characidium oiticicai Travassos, 1967
- Characidium orientale Buckup & Reis, 1997
- Characidium papachibe Peixoto & Wosiacki, 2013
- Characidium pellucidum Eigenmann, 1909
- Characidium phoxocephalum Eigenmann, 1912
- Characidium pteroides Eigenmann, 1909
- Characidium pterostictum Gomes, 1947
- Characidium purpuratum Steindachner, 1882
- Characidium rachovii Regan, 1913
- Characidium roesseli Géry, 1965
- Characidium samurai Zanata & Camelier, 2014
- Characidium satoi Melo & Oyakawa, 2015
- Characidium sanctjohanni Dahl, 1960
- Characidium schindleri Zarske & Géry, 2001
- Characidium schubarti Travassos, 1955
- Characidium serrano Buckup & Reis, 1997
- Characidium steindachneri Cope, 1878
- Characidium stigmosum Melo & Buckup, 2002
- Characidium summus Zanata & Ohara, 2015
- Characidium tapuia Zanata et al., 2018
- Characidium tenue (Cope, 1894)
- Characidium timbuiense Travassos, 1946
- Characidium travassosi Melo et al., 2016
- Characidium vestigipinne Buckup & Hahn, 2000
- Characidium vidali Travassos, 1967
- Characidium zebra Eigenmann, 1909
literature
- Günther Sterba : The world's freshwater fish. 2nd Edition. Urania, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-332-00109-4 , p. 151.
- Érica A. Serrano, Bruno F. Melo Diogo Freitas ‐ Souza, Maria LM Oliveira, Ricardo Utsunomia, Claudio Oliveira, Fausto Foresti (2018): Species delimitation in Neotropical fishes of the genus Characidium (Teleostei, Characiformes). Zoologica Scripta, 48 (1): 69-80. October 2018. doi: 10.1111 / zsc.12318
- Axel Zarski: Characidium Reinhardt, 1866 and Characidium […]. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. 2 volumes. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , p. 215 f.
Web links
Commons : Characidium - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Characidium on Fishbase.org (English)