Campellolebias

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: Campellolebias
Species: C. brucei – C. chrysolineatus – C. dorsimaculatus – C. intermedius
Name

Campellolebias Vaz-Ferreira & Sierra de Soriano, 1974

Gender: masculine

Type species: Campellolebias brucei Vaz-Ferreira & Sierra de Soriano, 1974, by original designation and monotypy.
References

Vaz-Ferreira, R & Sierra de Soriano, B. 1974. Campellolebias brucei n. gen. n. sp., cyprinodontido con especializacion de la papila genital y de los primeros radios de la aleta anal. Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 10(138): 1–17, Pls. 1–2. Reference page.

Links

Campellolebias – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Campellolebias is a genus of killifish in the family Rivulidae from southeast Brazil. They are restricted to seasonal blackwater pools in forests in coastal parts of Santa Catarina and São Paulo states.[1]

They are small fish, up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in total length.[2] Uniquely among killifish, Campellolebias and the closely related Cynopoecilus have internal fertilization. A part of the males' anal fin forms a "pseudo-gonopodium" that is used for inseminating the female.[1]
Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[2]

Campellolebias brucei Vaz Ferreira & Sierra de Soriano, 1974 (Swordfin killifish)
Campellolebias chrysolineatus W. J. E. M. Costa, Lacerda & G. C. Brasil, 1989
Campellolebias dorsimaculatus W. J. E. M. Costa, Lacerda & G. C. Brasil, 1989
Campellolebias intermedius W. J. E. M. Costa & De Luca, 2006

Etymology

The generic name Campellolebias is a combination of Campello, which honours the Brazilian chemical engineer, aquarist and amateur ichthyologist Gilberto Campello Brasil (1945-2008) and lebias a Greek word for a small fish which was applied to Killifish by Georges Cuvier and is now used a root for names within the order Cyprinodontiformes. Vaz Ferreira & Sierra de Soriano described Campello Brasil as an “enthusiastic scholar” of Brazilian killifishes and he also collected specimens, sending them to the Vaz Ferreira & Sierra de Soriano.[3]
References

Costa, W.J.E.M. (2006). "Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships among species of the seasonal, internally inseminating, South American killifish genus Campellolebias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), with the description of a new species". Zootaxa. 1227: 31–55. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1227.1.2.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Campellolebias in FishBase. October 2018 version.
Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (5 September 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Family RIVULIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 September 2019.