Overview
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Ameca may mean:
- , fish of the Goodeidae family
- Ameca splendens, the Butterfly Goodeid or Butterfly Splitfin
- Ameca shiner, a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family
- Geography
Mexico:
- Ameca, Jalisco
- Río Ameca (Ameca River)
- Sierra de Ameca
- Amecameca, in the State of México, often informally abbreviated to "Ameca"
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Taxonomy
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- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- 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 - Bony Fishes
- Class: Osteichthyes
Huxley, 1880 - Bony Fishes
- Subclass: Actinopterygii
- Ray-Finned Fishes
- Infraclass: Actinopteri
- Cohort: Clupeocephala
- Superorder: Acanthopterygii
- Order: Cyprinodontiformes Berg, 1940 - Cyprinodontiforms, Cyprinodonts
- Superorder: Acanthopterygii
- Cohort: Clupeocephala
- Infraclass: Actinopteri
- Subclass: Actinopterygii
- Ray-Finned Fishes
- Class: Osteichthyes
Huxley, 1880 - Bony Fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes
Huxley, 1880 - Bony Fishes
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Genus Ameca is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in the Genus Ameca: A. splendens (Butterfly Splitfin)
References
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- Contreras-Balderas, S. & Almada-Villela, P. (1996). Ameca splendens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 29 November 2006.
Footnotes
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- ^ Etymology:
"The generic name Ameca is from the name of the river to [the basin of - Ed.] which the new genus is evidently confined. The gender is feminine."
"The specific name, of Latin derivation, means bright (shining) or glowing, in reference to the striking life colors of the new species."
– Miller & Fitzsimons (1971).
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