Pamphorichthys

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Pamphorichthys

Genus of fishes

Pamphorichthys is a genus of poeciliids native to the Amazon, Paraguay, São Francisco and Itapicuru basins in South America.

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Some authorities consider Pamphorichthys to be a subgenus of Poecilia.[2]

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[3]

  • Pamphorichthys araguaiensis W. J. E. M. Costa, 1991
  • Pamphorichthys hasemani (Henn, 1916)
  • Pamphorichthys hollandi (Henn, 1916)
  • Pamphorichthys minor (Garman, 1895) (Mini-molly)
  • Pamphorichthys pertapeh C. A. A. de Figueiredo, 2008
  • Pamphorichthys scalpridens (Garman, 1895)

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Pamphorichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  2. [2]
    Robert W. Meredith; Marcelo N. Pires; David N. Reznick; Mark S. Springer (2010). "Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships and the evolution of the placenta in Poecilia (Micropoecilia) (Poeciliidae:Cyprinodontiformes)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 55 (2): 631–639. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.11.006. PMID 19922806.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Pamphorichthys in FishBase. August 2012 version.


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