Boulengerella

Boulengerella
Boulengerella maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Ctenoluciidae
Genus:	Boulengerella C. H. Eigenmann, 1903 [1]
Type species
Xiphostoma lateristriga Boulenger, 1895 [1]
Synonyms [1]
Spixostoma Whitley, 1951 Xiphostoma Agassiz, 1829

Boulengerella is a genus of pike-characins from tropical South America, found in the Amazon Basin, Orinoco, and rivers of the Guiana Shield. Boulengerella was named after the Belgian ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger. ^[2] The currently described species are:

• Boulengerella cuvieri (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (bicuda)
• Boulengerella lateristriga (Boulenger, 1895) (striped pike-characin)
• Boulengerella lucius (G. Cuvier, 1816) (golden pike-characin)
• Boulengerella maculata (Valenciennes, 1850) (spotted pike-characin)
• Boulengerella xyrekes Vari, 1995

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Boulengerella". FishBase . October 2011 version.

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Ctenoluciidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 18 April 2025.
2. Taphorn, Donald Charles (1990). Characiform fishes of the Apure River drainage, Venezuela. p. 673.