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: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Clupei
Superordo: Clupeomorpha
Ordo: Clupeiformes
Subordo: Clupeoidei
Familia: Clupeidae
Subfamilia: Dussumieriinae
Genus: Gilchristella
Species: G. aestuaria
Name
Gilchristella Fowler 1935
Type species: Spratelloides aestuarius Gilchrist, 1913
Etymology: –ella, diminutive connoting endearmant, in honor of the late John Dow Fisher Gilchrist (1866-1926), “author of many important papers on the fishes of South Africa,” and author of type species, G. aestuaria. (From The ETYFish Project)
Synonyms
Pellonulops Smith, 1949
References
Fowler, H. W. 1935. South African fishes received from Mr. H. W. Bell-Marley in 1935. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 87: 361–408. Reference page.
Links
Gilchristella and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Gilchristella species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
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