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: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Characiformes
Familia: Alestidae
Genus: Lepidarchus
Species: L. adonis
Name
Lepidarchus Roberts, 1966: 209
Gender: masculine
Type species: Lepidarchus adonis Roberts, 1966
Type by original designation (also monotypic)
References
Roberts, T.R. 1966: Description and osteology of Lepidarchus adonis, a remarkable new characid fish from West Africa. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 8 (3): 209–227.
Poll, M. 1967: Révision des Characidae nains africains. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Série in-8°, Sciences Zoologiques, No. 162: 1–158.
Zanata, A.M. & Vari, R.P. 2005: The family Alestidae (Ostariophysi, Characiformes): a phylogenetic analysis of a trans-Atlantic clade. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 145: 1–144. PDF
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Lepidarchus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.
Eschmeyer, W.N., Catalog of Fishes (electronic version)
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