Austrolebias

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
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: Aplocheiloidei

Familia: Rivulidae
Genus: Austrolebias

Species (43): A. accorsii – A. adloffi – A. affinis – A. alexandri – A. apaii – A. arachan – A. bellottii – A. camaquensis – A. carvalhoi – A. charrua – A. cheradophilus – A. cinereus – A. cyaneus – A. duraznensis – A. elongatus – A. gymnoventris – A. ibicuiensis – A. jaegari – A. juanlangi – A. litzi – A. luteoflammulatus – A. melanoorus – A. minuano – A. monstrosus – A. nachtigalli – A. nigripinnis – A. nigrofasciatus – A. nonoiuliensis – A. paranaensis – A. patriciae – A. paucisquama – A. periodicus – A. prognathus – A. queguay – A. quirogai – A. reicherti – A. robustus – A. toba – A. univentripinnis – A. vandenbergi – A. varzeae – A. vazferreirai – A. viarius – A. wolterstorffi
Name

Austrolebias Costa, 1998

Type species: Cynolebias bellottii (Steindachner, 1881)

References
Primary references

Costa, W.J.E.M. 1998. Phylogeny and classification of Rivulidae revisited: origin and evolution of annualism and miniaturization in rivulid fishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei). Journal of Comparative Biology 3(1): 33–92.

Additional references

Costa, W.J.E.M. 2006. The South American annual killifish genus Austrolebias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): phylogenetic relationships, descriptive morphology and taxonomic revision. Zootaxa 1213: 1–162.
Volcan, M.V., Gonçalves, A.C. & Lanés, L.E.K. 2017. A new annual fish of the genus Austrolebias (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from Rio Camaquã basin, Laguna dos Patos system, Brazilian Pampa. Zootaxa 4338(1): 141–152. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.7. Reference page.

Links

Austrolebias and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Austrolebias species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.

There are currently 46 recognized species in this genus:[5]

Austrolebias accorsii D. T. B. Nielsen & Pillet, 2015[6]
Austrolebias adloffi (C. G. E. Ahl, 1922)
Austrolebias affinis (L. H. Amato, 1986)
Austrolebias alexandri (Castello & R. B. López, 1974)
Austrolebias apaii W. J. E. M. Costa, Laurino, Recuero & Salvia, 2006
Austrolebias arachan Loureiro, Azpelicueta & G. B. García, 2004
Austrolebias araucarianus W. J. E. M. Costa, 2014[7]
Austrolebias bagual M. V. Volcan, Lanés & Â. C. Gonçalves, 2014[8]
Austrolebias bellottii (Steindachner, 1881) (Argentine pearlfish)
Austrolebias carvalhoi (G. S. Myers, 1947)
Austrolebias charrua W. J. E. M. Costa & Cheffe, 2001
Austrolebias cheradophilus (Vaz Ferreira, Sierra de Soriano & Scaglia de Paulete, 1964)
Austrolebias cinereus (L. H. Amato, 1986)
Austrolebias cyaneus (L. H. Amato, 1987)
Austrolebias duraznensis (G. B. García, Scvortzoff & A. Hernández, 1995)
Austrolebias elongatus (Steindachner, 1881)
Austrolebius ephemerus Volcan & Severo-Neto, 2019[9]
Austrolebias gymnoventris (L. H. Amato, 1986)
Austrolebias ibicuiensis (W. J. E. M. Costa, 1999)
Austrolebias jaegari W. J. E. M. Costa & Cheffe, 2002
Austrolebias juanlangi W. J. E. M. Costa, Cheffe, Salvia & Litz, 2006
Austrolebias litzi W. J. E. M. Costa, 2006
Austrolebias luteoflammulatus (Vaz Ferreira, Sierra de Soriano & Scaglia de Paulete, 1964)
Austrolebias melanoorus (L. H. Amato, 1986)
Austrolebias minuano W. J. E. M. Costa & Cheffe, 2001
Austrolebias monstrosus (Huber, 1995)
Austrolebias nachtigalli W. J. E. M. Costa & Cheffe, 2006
Austrolebias nigripinnis (Regan, 1912) (Black-fin pearlfish)
Austrolebias nigrofasciatus W. J. E. M. Costa & Cheffe, 2001
Austrolebias nioni (Berkenkamp, Reichert & Prieto, 1997)
Austrolebias nonoiuliensis (Taberner, Fernández-Santos & Castelli, 1974)
Austrolebias paranaensis W. J. E. M. Costa, 2006
Austrolebias patriciae (Huber, 1995)
Austrolebias paucisquama Ferrer, L. R. Malabarba & W. J. E. M. Costa, 2008
Austrolebias periodicus (W. J. E. M. Costa, 1999)
Austrolebias prognathus (L. H. Amato, 1986)
Austrolebias quirogai Loureiro, Duarte & Zarucki, 2011
Austrolebias reicherti (Loureiro & G. B. García, 2004)
Austrolebias robustus (Günther, 1883)
Austrolebias toba Calviño, 2006
Austrolebias univentripinnis W. J. E. M. Costa & Cheffe, 2005
Austrolebias vandenbergi (Huber, 1995)
Austrolebias varzeae W. J. E. M. Costa, R. E. dos Reis & Behr, 2004
Austrolebias vazferreirai (Berkenkamp, Etzel, Reichert & Salvia, 1994)
Austrolebias viarius (Vaz Ferreira, Sierra de Soriano & Scaglia de Paulete, 1964)
Austrolebias wolterstorffi (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924)

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Austrolebias". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Rivulidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
Costa, W.J.E.M. (2006). "The South American annual killifish genus Austrolebias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): Phylogenetic relationships, descriptive morphology and taxonomic revision". Zootaxa. 1213: 1–162. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1067.1.1.
Alonso, F.; P.A. Calviño; G.E. Terán; I. García (2016). "Geographical distribution of Austrolebias monstrosus (Huber, 1995), A. elongatus (Steindachner, 1881) and A. vandenbergi (Huber, 1995) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes), with comments on the biogeography and ecology of Rivulidae in Pampasic and Chaco floodplains". Check List. 12 (4): 1945. doi:10.15560/12.4.1945.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Austrolebias in FishBase. November 2018 version.
Nielsen, D.T.B. & Pillet, D. (2015): Austrolebias accorsii, a new annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae: Cynolebiatinae) from the upper río Grande basin, Amazon basin, Bolivia. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 21 (4): 172-179.
Costa, W.J.E.M. (2014): Austrolebias araucarianus, a new seasonal killifish from the Iguaçu river drainage, southern Brazilian Araucarian Plateau Forest (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (2): 97-101.
Volcan, M.V., Lanés, L.E.K. & Gonçalves, Â.C. (2014): Austrolebias bagual, a new species of annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from southern Brazil. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 20 (4): 161-172.
Volcan, Matheus Vieira; Severo-Neto, Francisco (2019-02-26). "Austrolebias ephemerus (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), a new annual fish from the upper Rio Paraguai basin, Brazilian Chaco". Zootaxa. 4560 (3): 541–553. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4560.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334.