Overview
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Rarely used as bait . Harmless.
Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Shinyscaled Curimata
Common Names in Finnish:
Lyhtybarbitetra
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
大鱗短線脂鯉, 大鳞短线脂鲤
Common Names in Spanish:
Boquilla
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Order:
Characiformes
()
- Family:
Curimatidae
()
- Subfamily:
Curimatinae
()
- Genus:
Curimatopsis
()
- Steindachner, 1876
- Specific name:
macrolepis
- (Steindachner, 1876)
- Scientific name: - Curimatopsis macrolepis (Steindachner, 1876)
- Specific name:
macrolepis
- (Steindachner, 1876)
- Genus:
Curimatopsis
(
- Subfamily:
Curimatinae
(
- Family:
Curimatidae
(
- Order:
Characiformes
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Curimatopsis macrocephalus Ahl • Curimatus macrolepis Steindachner
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Steindachner, F. Die Schlangen und Eidechsen
der Galapagos-Inseln. Festschr. zool.-bot. Ges., Wien 1876: 303-329,
1876.
Comment: Author
, year and status from Eschmeyer[1].
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 16-May-2000
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Curimatopsis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. evelynae (Spottail Curimata) · C. macrolepis (Shinyscaled Curimata)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 409, p. 94.
- Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 260, p. 261, p. 88, p. 89.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 789, p. 791.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 14 1891 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 46.
- Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. J. B. Hatcher in charge. Edited by William B. Scott. Princeton, The University, 1901-32 [v. 1, 1903] url p. 420, p. 420, p. 420.
- The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands / by C.H. Eigenmann. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1912. url p. 260, p. 260, p. 261, p. 261, p. 88, p. 88, p. 89, p. 89.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- FishBase
- FishBase 2006.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Vari, Richard P. (from FishBase).
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
- Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3863407
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-34895
- Fishbase Species ID: 11891
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 640892
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 108544
Footnotes
- Eschmeyer, W.N., Editor (1998). Catalog of fishes. Special Publication, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 vols. 2905 p. [back]
