Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Atherinomorphae
Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes
Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei
Familia: Poeciliidae
Subfamilia: Poeciliinae
Tribus: Alfarini
Genus: Alfaro
Species: A. cultratus – A. huberi
Name
Alfaro Meek, 1912:72
Alfaro acutiventralis Meek, 1912, by monotypy.
Synonyms
Furcipenis Hubbs, 1931
Petalosoma Regan, 1908:458, preoccupied by Petalosoma Lewis, 1903 in Coleoptera, replaced by Petalurichthys Regan, 1912
Petalurichthys Regan, 1912:494 footnote
References
Meek (18 Sept. 1912) New species of fishes from Costa Rica. Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series 10 (7): 69–75.
Regan, C. T. (1908) A collection of freshwater fishes made by Mr. C. F. Underwood in Costa Rica. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2: 455–464.
Regan, C. T. (1 Nov. 1912) A revision of the poeciliid fishes of the genera Rivulus, Pterolebias and Cynolebias. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 494–508.
Links
Alfaro – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Alfaro is a genus of poeciliid fishes endemic to Central America. The generic name honours the Costa Rican archaeologist, geologist, ethnologist, zoologist and Director of the National Museum of Costa Rica, Anastasio Alfaro (1865-1951).[2]
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[3]
Alfaro cultratus (Regan, 1908)
Alfaro huberi (Fowler, 1923)
References
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Alfaro". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Alfaro in FishBase. August 2012 version.
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