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Published November 27, 2023 | Version v1
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Characidae Latreille 1825

Creators

  • 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
  • 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
  • 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
  • 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
  • 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
  • 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554

Description

Family Characidae Latreille 1825 (Fig. 3B). Characins, Tetras; Sardinas, Sardinitas de Río, Sabaletes

Description: Body fusiform to slightly elongate, compressed to strongly compressed; usually less than 15 cm in length; upper jaw usually not projecting well beyond the tip of the lower jaw, upper jaw usually with 1–2 rows of multicuspid teeth; fins spine-less; adipose fin present; caudal fin forked; generally silvery in color (Angulo et al. 2021). Distribution: Freshwater; southwestern Texas, USA, Mexico and Central and South America (Nelson et al. 2016). Five genera and eleven species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.

Notes

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C8788E856FFA0FF792E75FCD73745

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10208796 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10208788 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB5FFF0E843FFB5FFEE2C1FFFA1347C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9ECCB3F7-5481-47C2-8A5A-E9A3F38C31BA (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038C8788E856FFA0FF792E75FCD73745 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/219295909 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/279636/taxon/038C8788E856FFA0FF792E75FCD73745.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Latreille
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Characiformes
Family
Characidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Characidae Latreille, 1825 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023

References

  • Angulo, A., Ramirez-Coghi, A. R. & Sanchez, M. L. (2021) Claves para la identificacion de los peces de las aguas continentales e insulares de Costa Rica. Parte I: Familias. UNED Research Journal, 13 (1), 27 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.22458 / urj. v 13 i 1.3145