Curimatopsis

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Curimatopsis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Curimatidae
Genus: Curimatopsis
Steindachner, 1876 [1]
Type species
Curimatus (Curimatopsis) macrolepis
Steindachner, 1876 [1]
Species

11, see text

Synonyms [1]

Curimatopsis is a genus of small South American fish in the family Curimatidae. [2] They are native to freshwater habitats in the Amazon, Orinoco and Paraguay basins, as well as river of the Guianas. [3]

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus: [4] [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Curimatidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Curimatopsis". FishBase . October 2017 version.
  3. ↑ Melo, B.F.; C. Oliveira (2017). "Three new species of Curimatopsis (Characiformes: Curimatidae) from the Amazon basin". Journal of Fish Biology. 91 (2): 528–544. Bibcode:2017JFBio..91..528M. doi:10.1111/jfb.13360. PMID   28653414.
  4. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Curimatopsis". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  5. ↑ Melo, Bruno F. (2020). "New species of Curimatopsis from the río Caroni, Orinoco basin, Venezuela, with comments on C. macrolepis (Characiformes: Curimatidae)". Neotropical Ichthyology. 18 (2) e200002. doi: 10.1590/1982-0224-2020-0002 . hdl: 11449/201002 . ISSN   1982-0224.


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