Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Pristigaster cayana Cuvier, 1829 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Pristigaster americanus Guérin-Méneville, 1844 (synonym)

Pristigaster argenteus Schinz, 1822 (ambiguous synonym)

Pristigaster cayanus Cuvier, 1829 (synonym)

Pristigaster lichtensteini Jarocki, 1822 (ambiguous synonym)

Pristigaster martii Agassiz, 1829 (synonym)

Pristigaster phaeton Valenciennes, 1847 (synonym)

Pristigaster triangularis Stark, 1828 (ambiguous synonym)

Common names:

亚马逊锯腹鳓 Mandarin Chinese

亞馬遜鋸腹鰳 Mandarin Chinese

Amazon hatchet herring English

Amazon-øksesild Danish

Apapá English, Portuguese

Apapá-verdadeiro Portuguese

Pataquera Portuguese

Sardinha-d'água-doce Portuguese

Sardinita Spanish

Sledice cayennská Czech

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Clupeiformes

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Family Pristigasteridae

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Genus Pristigaster

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Distribution:

South America: Amazon drainage (from perhaps mouth of Rio Branco at Goiaçu, Rio Solimões, Rio Juruá and as far as the Río Ucayali in Peru). (There are possibly two species, judging from specimens in the Museu de Zoológia, Sao Paulo).; Peru; Neotropical; Colombia; Brazil; America, South - Inland waters; Amazon

Additional data:

Year from Eschmeyer (Ref. 12965). Specific epithet emended.

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 27-Jul-1994

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:4060d4ab-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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