Belonesox belizanus Kner 1860
Authors/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
Belonesox belizanus Kner 1860 (Fig. 9F). Top Minnow, Pike Killifish; Gasparcillo, Aguja, Pepesca Gaspar, Olomina Picuda, Picuda, Alumina Picuda, Pepesca
Vouchers: UCR 0267-006 (3), 1004-002 (1), 1050-001 (1), 1052-006 (2), 1054-001 (22) and 1062-012 (1); LSUMZ 15306 (1), 15322 (4), 15339 (2), 15369 (4), 15380 (2) and 15389 (1); other collections: IBUNAM 13809 (1), UMMZ 199624 (1), 199634 (1), 199646 (1), 199656 (1). Distribution: North and Central America; from southern Mexico to northern Costa Rica, Atlantic drainages; (Nicaragua) Co, UI, WK, Pr, GM, KP, Es, BF, IM, To, Sa, SJ, RF and LN (Atlantic); 0–40 masl; Sec, Pot. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2019), population trend unknown. Literature: Astorqui (1975: 104; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Villa (1982: 129; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 194; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 54; listed, including information on distribution).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kner
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Family
- Poeciliidae
- Genus
- Belonesox
- Species
- belizanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Belonesox belizanus Kner, 1860 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023
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.
- 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