Leporinus venerei
Leporinus venerei is a species of Leporinus found only from the Rio Araguaia basin in Brazil in South America.[1] This species can reach a length of 13.6 centimetres (5.4 in) SL.[2]
| Leporinus venerei | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Anostomidae |
| Genus: | Leporinus |
| Species: | L. venerei |
| Binomial name | |
| Leporinus venerei Britski & Birindelli, 2008 | |
Etymology
It is named in honor of Paulo Cesare Venere of the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Campus Universitário do Araguaia. It was he who collected the first known specimens of this species in 1995.[3]
References
- 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.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Leporinus venerei" 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 24 March 2022.
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