Prorivulus Costa.
Creators
- 1. Facultad de Ciencias Ecología y Evolución, Igua 4225, 11400 Montevideo, MO, Uruguay.
- 2. Department of Biology, University of Richmond, 28 Westhampton Way, 23173 Richmond, Virginia, USA.
- 3. Sección Ictiología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, 25 de mayo 582, Montevideo, MO, Uruguay.
- 4. Instituto de Bio y Geociencias del NOA (IBIGEO) - CONICET, 9 de julio 14, 4405 Rosario de Lerma, Argentina.
- 5. Laboratório de Fisiologia da Conservação, Programa de Pós Graduação em Zoologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS Av. Ipiranga, 6681 - Partenon, 90619 - 900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil & Instituto Pró-Pampa, Ictiologia, Rua Gomes Carneiro, 1043, 96010 - 610 Pelotas, RS, Brazil.
- 6. Instituto Pró-Pampa, Ictiologia, Rua Gomes Carneiro, 1043, 96010 - 610 Pelotas, RS, Brazil.
- 7. Grupo de Investigación y Conservación de Killis (GICK), Calle 122, Nº 2324, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 8. Laboratório de Zoologia, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Taubaté, R. Quatro de Março, 432, 12020 - 270 Taubaté, SP, Brazil.
- 9. Departamento de Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias, UDELAR, Montevideo, MO, Uruguay.
- 10. Instituto de Biología, Sección Genética Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, UDELAR, Iguá 4225, Montevideo, Uruguay. ggarcia @ fcien. edu. uy Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, UDELAR, Montevideo, MO, Uruguay.
Description
Prorivulus Costa
.A monotypic non-annual genus, P. auriferus Costa, Lima & Suzart, from the coastal drainages of northeastern Brazil, is diagnosed by the presence of soft anal fin rays in females, minute urogenital papilla in males, and absence of a dark bar on iris. It has some morphological characteristics similar to Kryptolebias, but other characters more closely align with the rest of Rivulidae. According to the original description it would be the sister taxa of all Rivulidae except Kryptolebias (Costa, 2004b, 2006a). Unfortunately, it has never been included in any subsequent phylogeny or revision, and its position remains uncertain.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rivulidae
- Genus
- Prorivulus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Costa.
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Costa WEJM. A new killifish genus and species from the coastal plains of northeastern Brazil (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Zootaxa. 2004 b; 642 (1): 1 - 10.
- Costa WEJM. Relationships and taxonomy of the killifish genus Rivulus (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae) from the Brazilian Amazonas river basin, with notes on historical ecology. Aqua. 2006 a; 11 (4): 133 - 45.