Published November 27, 2023 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Alfaro cultratus

  • 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

Alfaro cultratus (Regan 1908) (Fig. 9E). Knife Livebearer; Olomina, Alumina, Killi, Olomina de (Anastasio) Alfaro

Vouchers: UCR 0011-002 (10), 0024-01 (10), 0267-002 (58), 0362-002 (26), 0458-009 (10), 0461-001 (15), 1001- 002 (2), 1002-001 (1), 1004-001 (12), 1051-008 (31), 1052-023 (85), 1053-008 (1), 1054-011 (1), 1055-003 (20), 1057-009 (4), 1062-002 (46), 3222-003 (1), 3224-005 (1) and 3225-001 (1); FMNH 84997 (5); LSUMZ 15413 (95) and 15429 (1); other collections: ANSP 169229 (1), IBUNAM 13796 (1), 13799 (1), 13800 (1), 13801 (1), 13802 (1), 13803 (1), 13804 (1), 13805 (1), 13806 (1), 13807 (1), UMMZ 180637 (1), 180638 (1), 188128 (1), 196942 (1) and 199645 (1). Distribution: Central America; from eastern Honduras to western Panama, Atlantic and Pacific drainages; (Nicaragua) WK, Pr, GM, KP, Es, BF, IM, To, Sa, SJ, RF and LN (Atlantic); 3–600 masl; Sec, Pot. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2020), population trend stable. Literature: Astorqui (1975: 105; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Villa (1982: 128; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 192; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), van den Berghe (2015: 34, as Alfari cultratus —misspelled; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 54; listed, including information on distribution).

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 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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References

  • Villa, J. (1982) Peces nicaraguenses de agua dulce. Editorial Union Cardoza y Cia. Ltda, Managua, 253 pp.
  • Bussing, W. A. (1998). Freshwater fishes of Costa Rica. Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose´, Costa Rica, 468 pp.
  • van den Berghe, E. (2015) Peces de la cuenca del ri´o Punta Gorda, vertiente del Caribe de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Biodiversidad, 3, 1 - 55. [http: // www. bio-nica. info / RevNicaBiodiv / 03 - VandenBerghe-PecesPuntaGorda-final. pdf]
  • Angulo, A. (2021) New records and range extensions to the Costa Rican freshwater fish fauna, with an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 5083 (1), 1 - 72, https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5083.1.1