Pyrrhulina

Pyrrhulina is a genus of freshwater fishes found in tropical South America. Several of these species are popular aquarium fish.[1]

Pyrrhulina
Pyrrhulina sp.
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Pyrrhulina

Type species
Pyrrhulina filamentosa
Valenciennes, 1847
Species

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Pyrrhulina is closely related to Copeina and Copella, although it is distinguished from the former by having only one row of teeth (Copeina spp. have two). When the genus Copella was established, many species were removed from the genus Pyrrhulina and placed there, because differences in the maxillary bones in the males had been detected. Copella species are slimmer and more elongated than those species that remained in the genus Pyrrhulina.

Species

The 18 currently recognized species in this genus are:[2][3]

References

  1. Günther Sterba, ed. (1983). "Pyrrhulina". The Aquarist's Encyclopaedia. Edition Leipzig.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pyrrhulina in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  3. Netto-Ferreira, A.L. & Marinho, M.M.F. (2013): New species of Pyrrhulina (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the Brazilian Shield, with comments on a putative monophyletic group of species in the genus. Zootaxa, 3664 (3): 369–376.


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