Eigenmanniinae

Eigenmanniinae
Eigenmannia virescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gymnotiformes
Family:	Sternopygidae
Subfamily:	Eigenmanniinae Mago-Leccia, 1978 [1]

Eigenmanniinae is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sternopygidae, the glass knifefishes. The fishes in this subfamily are found in the Neotropics as far north as Panama.

Taxonomy

Eigenmanniinae was first proposed as a subfamily in 1978 by the Venezuelan ichthyologist Francisco Mago Leccia. ^[1] The validity of this taxon has been regarded as debateable and the 5th edition of Fishes of the World note that it had not been widely accepted. ^[2] However, the monophyly of this clade has been supported by more recent morphological amd molecular analyses. ^[3]

Genera

Eigenmanniinae contains the following genera: ^[4]

• Archolaemus Korringa, 1970
• Distocyclus Mago-Leccia. 1978
• Eigenmannia D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896
• Japigny Meunier, Jégu & Keith, 2011
• Rhabdolichops Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942
• Rhinosternarchus Dutra, Peixoto, Abrahão, Wosiacki, Menezes & de Santana, 2021

References

1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
2. Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. pp. 240–241. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6.
3. Guilherme Moreira Dutra; Luiz Peixoto; Vitor Abrahão; et al. (2021). "Morphology‐based phylogeny of Eigenmanniinae Mago‐Leccia, 1978 (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae), with a new classification". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 59. doi:10.1111/jzs.12535.
4. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Eigenmanninae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 27 May 2025.