Hoplerythrinus gronovii

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Hoplerythrinus gronovii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Erythrinidae
Genus: Hoplerythrinus
Species:
H. gronovii
Binomial name
Hoplerythrinus gronovii
(Valenciennes, 1847)

Hoplerythrinus gronovii is a species of trahira (family Erythrinidae). It is a tropical, pelagic freshwater fish. [1] [2]

The fish is named in honor of the Dutch naturalist Laurens Theodorus Gronovius (who was also known as Gronow, 1730-1777), who apparently illustrated this species in his book Museum ichthyologicum (1754-1756). [3]


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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Hoplerythrinus gronovii" in FishBase . August 2019 version.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species related to Hoplerythrinus gronovii". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE, HEMIODONTIDAE, ANOSTOMIDAE and CHILODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 November 2021.