Orestias elegans (fish)

Orestias elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Family:	Cyprinodontidae
Genus:	Orestias
Species:	O. elegans
Binomial name
	Orestias elegans; Garman, 1895[1]

Orestias elegans is a species of pupfish from the family Cyprinodontidae.[2] The type locality are small lakes among headwaters of Río Rimac, in Peru.[3] It is part of the agassii species complex.

References

Garman, S. 1895. The cyprinodonts. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 19 (pt 1): 1–179, Pls. 1–12
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Orestias elegans" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Orestias elegans". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

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[1] Garman, S. 1895. The cyprinodonts. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 19 (pt 1): 1–179, Pls. 1–12

[Fishbase-2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Orestias elegans" in FishBase. August 2019 version.

[CofF-3] Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Orestias elegans". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 October 2019.