Rhoadsia

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Rhoadsia
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Rhoadsia altipinna
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily: Rhoadsiinae
Genus: Rhoadsia
Fowler, 1911 [1]
Type species
Rhoadsia altipinna
Fowler, 1911 [1]

Rhoadsia is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. [1] The fishes in this genus are endemic to river basins in western Ecuador and Peru. [2] The name of this genus honours Samuel Nicholson Rhoads, [3] the owner of the Franklin Book Shop at 920 Walnut St., Philadelphia [4] and a naturalist in Philadelphia who collected the holotype of the type species of the genus, R. altipinna. [3]

Species

Rhoadsia contains the following valid species: [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Rhoadsiinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  2. 1 2 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Rhoadsia". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 Christopher Scharpf (3 October 2025). "Family ACESTRORHAMPHIDAE Eigenmann 1907 (American Tetras)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  4. ↑ William Bacon Evans (1952–1953). "Samuel Nicholson Rhoads" (PDF). Cassina. 39: 17–20.


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