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: Characinae
Genus: Roeboides
Species: R. affinis – R. araguaito – R. biserialis – R. bouchellei – R. bussingi – R. carti – R. dayi – R. descalvadensis – R. dientonito – R. dispar – R. guatemalensis – R. ilseae – R. loftini – R. margareteae – R. microlepis – R. myersii – R. numerosus – R. occidentalis – R. oligistos – R. prognathus – R. sazimai – R. xenodon
Name
Roeboides Günther, 1864
Type species: Epicyrtus microlepis Reinhardt, 1851
Synonyms
Cynocharax (subgenus of Roeboides) Fowler, 1907
Eucynopotamus Fowler, 1904
Evermannella Eigenmann, 1903
Evermannolus Eigenmann in Eigenmann & Ogle, 1907
References
Günther, A. 1864. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum 5: i–xxii + 1–455. BHLReference page.
Roeboides is a genus of characins from Central and South America. These fish, among other characteristics, are small, are typically translucent, and have a rhomboid shape.
Species
The 21 currently recognized species in this genus are:[1][2]
Roeboides affinis (Günther, 1868)
Roeboides araguaito C. A. S. de Lucena, 2003
Roeboides biserialis (Garman, 1890)
Roeboides bouchellei Fowler, 1923 (Crystal tetra)
Roeboides bussingi Matamoros, Chakrabarty, Angulo, Garita-Alvarado & McMahan, 2013[2]
Roeboides carti C. A. S. de Lucena, 2000
Roeboides dayi (Steindachner, 1878)
Roeboides descalvadensis Fowler, 1932 (Parana scale-eating characin)
Roeboides dientonito L. P. Schultz, 1944
Roeboides dispar C. A. S. de Lucena, 2001
Roeboides guatemalensis (Günther, 1864) (Guatemalan headstander)
Roeboides ilseae W. A. Bussing, 1986
Roeboides loftini C. A. S. de Lucena, 2011[3]
Roeboides margareteae C. A. S. de Lucena, 2003
Roeboides microlepis (J. T. Reinhardt, 1851)
Roeboides myersii T. N. Gill, 1870
Roeboides numerosus C. A. S. de Lucena, 2000
Roeboides occidentalis Meek & Hildebrand, 1916
Roeboides oligistos C. A. S. de Lucena, 2000
Roeboides sazimai C. A. S. de Lucena, 2007
Roeboides xenodon (J. T. Reinhardt, 1851)
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Roeboides". FishBase. April 2013 version.
Matamoros, W.A., Chakrabarty, P., Angulo, A., Garita-Alvarado, C.A. & McMahan, C.D. (2013): A new species of Roeboides (Teleostei: Characidae) from Costa Rica and Panama, with a key to the middle American species of the genus.[permanent dead link] Neotropical Ichthyology, 11 (2): 285-290.
de Lucena, C.A.S. (2011): A new fish species of Roeboides from Panamá (Characiformes: Characidae). Revista de Biologìa Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation), 59 (4): 1663-1667.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
