Austrolebias_bellottii

<i>Austrolebias bellottii</i>

Austrolebias bellottii

Species of fish

Austrolebias bellottii, the Argentine pearlfish, is a species of killifish from the family Rivulidae which occurs in the basins of the Paraná River and Uruguay River, in Argentina and Uruguay.[1] This species was described as Cynolebias bellottii by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner in 1881 from types collected at La Plata, Argentina.[2] The specific name honours the Italian biologist and paleontologist Cristoforo Bellotti (1823-1919), who supplied Steindachner with specimens from his collection at Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.[3] It is the type species of the genus Austrolebias.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Austrolebias bellottii" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  2. [2]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Austrolebias bellottii". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Austrolebias". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 September 2019.



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