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: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Characiformes
Familia: Characidae
Subfamilia: Rhoadsiinae
Genus: Nematocharax
Species: N. costai – N. venustus
Name
Nematocharax Weitzman et al., 1986
Type species: Nematocharax venustus Weitzman et al., 1986
References
Menezes, N.A., Zanata, A.M. & Camelier. P. 2015: Nematocharax costai Bragança, Barbosa & Mattos a junior synonym of Nematocharax venustus Weitzman, Menezes & Britski (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Zootaxa 3920(3): 453–462. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3920.3.4. Reference page.
Weitzman, S. H., Menezes, N. A. & Britski, H. A.; 1986: Nematocharax venustus, a new genus and species of fish from the Rio Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 99 (2): 335–346.
Nematocharax 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.
Nematocharax is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae. It contains the single species Nematocharax venustus,[1] which is endemic to Brazil, where it is found in the Jequitinhonha River basin. The males of this species can reach a length of 5.1 centimetres (2.0 in) SL while the females only grow to 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) SL.[2][3]
References
Menezes, N.A., Zanata, A.M. & Camelier, P. (2015): Nematocharax costai Bragança, Barbosa & Mattos a junior synonym of Nematocharax venustus Weitzman, Menezes & Britski (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Zootaxa, 3920 (3): 453–462.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Nematocharax venustus" in FishBase. April 2015 version.
Nematocharax venustus, A new genus and species of fish from the Rio Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Teleostei: Characidae) by Stanley H. Weitzman, Naércio A. Menezes and Heraldo A. Britski Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99:335-346(1986)i. Vol. 99. 1986.
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