Campellolebias

<i>Campellolebias</i>

Campellolebias

Genus of fishes

Campellolebias is a genus of killifish in the family Rivulidae from southeast Brazil. They are restricted to seasonal blackwater pools in forests in coastal parts of Santa Catarina and São Paulo states.[1]

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They are small fish, up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in total length.[2] Uniquely among killifish, Campellolebias and the closely related Cynopoecilus have internal fertilization. A part of the males' anal fin forms a "pseudo-gonopodium" that is used for inseminating the female.[1]

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[2]

Etymology

The generic name Campellolebias is a combination of Campello, which honours the Brazilian chemical engineer, aquarist and amateur ichthyologist Gilberto Campello Brasil (1945-2008) and lebias a Greek word for a small fish which was applied to Killifish by Georges Cuvier and is now used a root for names within the order Cyprinodontiformes. Vaz Ferreira & Sierra de Soriano described Campello Brasil as an “enthusiastic scholar” of Brazilian killifishes and he also collected specimens, sending them to the Vaz Ferreira & Sierra de Soriano.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Costa, W.J.E.M. (2006). "Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships among species of the seasonal, internally inseminating, South American killifish genus Campellolebias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), with the description of a new species". Zootaxa. 1227: 31–55. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1227.1.2.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Campellolebias in FishBase. October 2018 version.
  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.


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