Leporinus vanzoi
Leporinus vanzoi is a species of Leporinus found in the Rio Araguaia in Brazil in South America.[1]
| Leporinus vanzoi | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Anostomidae |
| Genus: | Leporinus |
| Species: | L. vanzoi |
| Binomial name | |
| Leporinus vanzoi Britski & Garavello, 2005 | |
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of herpetologist Paulo Emílio “Vanzo” Vanzolini (1924-2013), the founder of Expedição Permanente à Amazônia (EPA), which has greatly contributed to the Amazonian fish collection at the Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia in São Paulo, Brazil and to Brazilian fish studies in general. The type specimens were collected by members of the EPA under the direction of Vanzolini.[2]
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Leporinus vanzoi" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE, HEMIODONTIDAE, ANOSTOMIDAE and CHILODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
- Britski, H.A. and J.L.O. Birindelli, 2008. Description of a new species of the genus Leporinus Spix (Characiformes:Anostomidae) from the rio Araguaia, Brazil, with comments on the taxonomy and distribution of L. parae and L. lacustris. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 6(1):45-51.
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