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Tetragonopterus spilurus

(Silver tetra)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Silver tetra

Common Names in Finnish:

Lanttitetra

Common Names in Portuguese:

Lambari

Common Names in Spanish:

Bobita

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: Characidae ()
        Subfamily: Tetragonopterinae ()
        Genus: Tetragonopterus () - Cuvier, 1817
        Specific name: spilurus
        Scientific name: - Tetragonopterus spilurus

Synonyms

Ctenobrycon spilurus (Cuvier and Valenciennes)

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Tetragonopterus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. abramis (Tetra) · T. affinis (Orangefin Characin) · T. alburnus (Tetra) · T. caudomaculatus (Tailspot Tetra) · T. collettii (Colletti Tetra) · T. dichrourus (Spot-Tailed Moenkhausia) · T. eigenmanniorum (Tetra) · T. guppyi (Mountain-Stream Sardine) · T. heterorhabdus (Belgian Flag Tetra) · T. huambonicus (Tetra) · T. interruptus (Uruguay Tetra) · T. longipinnis (Tetra) · T. mexicanus (Blind Cavefish) · T. multifasciatus (Silver-Tipped Tetra) · T. nigripinnis (Tetra) · T. ocellifer (Head-And-Tail-Light Tetra) · T. oligolepis (Redeye Tetra) · T. orbicularis (Disk Characin) · T. scabripinnis (Tetra) · T. schomburgkii (Black Band Myleus) · T. scleroparius (Creek Tetra) · T. spilurus (Silver Tetra) · T. taeniatus (Black Widow Tetra) · T. ulreyi (Ulrey's Tetra)

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Further Reading

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Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 318.
Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 363.
The American Characidae / by Carl H. Eigenmann. 43 1927 Cambridge: Printed for the Museum, 1917-1929. url p. 335.
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. 363, p. 363.

Notes

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Contributors

Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 173368
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4008948

Last Revised: 2012-07-28