Jupiaba

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Jupiaba
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Jupiaba pinnata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily: Jupiabinae
Benine & Ota, 2024
Genus: Jupiaba
Zanata, 1997

Jupiaba is a genus of characins from South America. It is the only member of the subfamily Jupiabinae. [1] [2]

It contains 29 currently described species: [3]

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Acestrorhamphidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  2. Melo, Bruno F; Ota, Rafaela P; Benine, Ricardo C; Carvalho, Fernando R; Lima, Flavio C T; Mattox, George M T; Souza, Camila S; Faria, Tiago C; Reia, Lais; Roxo, Fabio F; Valdez-Moreno, Martha; Near, Thomas J; Oliveira, Claudio (2024-09-01). "Phylogenomics of Characidae, a hyper-diverse Neotropical freshwater fish lineage, with a phylogenetic classification including four families (Teleostei: Characiformes)" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 202 (1): zlae101. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae101. ISSN   0024-4082.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Jupiaba". FishBase . October 2011 version.
  4. Astyanax scologaster, a new Characid (Pisces: Ostariophysi) from the Rio Negro, South America by Marilyn J. Weitzman and Richard P. Vari Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99:709-716 (1986)i. Vol. 99. 1986.