Published November 11, 2014 | Version v1
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Potamotrygonidae Garman 1877

  • 1. Grasmeent 80, 1357 JJ Almere, The Netherlands
  • 2. Curator Emeritus, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
  • 3. Im Ramstal 76, 97922 Lauda-Königshofen, Germany & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D- 70191 Stuttgart, Germany [temporarily out of office]

Description

Family Potamotrygonidae Garman 1877

Potamotrygones Garman 1877:208 [ref. 1528] (group?) Potamotrygon [stem Potamotrygon- confirmed by Eigenmann 1912:116 [ref. 1227]]

Ellipesurinae [Elipesurinae] Gill 1877b:958 [ref. 32501] (subfamily) Elipesurus [stem corrected to Elipesurby Jordan 1923a:104 [ref. 2421], confirmed by Myers & Storey 1956:15 [ref. 32831]]

Paratrygoninae Gill 1893b:130 [ref. 26255] (subfamily) Paratrygon [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1]

Notes

Published as part of Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, pp. 1-230 in Zootaxa 3882 (2) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7047777

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Garman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Myliobatiformes
Family
Potamotrygonidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Potamotrygonidae Garman, 1877 sec. Laan, Eschmeyer & Fricke, 2014

References

  • Garman, S. (1877) On the pelvis and external sexual organs of selachians, with especial references to the new genera Potamotrygon and Disceus (with descriptions). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 19, 197 - 214. [Author's name appeared as ' S. W. Garman. '] [November, ref. 1528]
  • Eigenmann, C. H. (1912) The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species, and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 5 (1), i - xxii + 1 - 578, Pls. 1 - 103. [June, ref. 1227] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 4686
  • Gill, T. N. (1877 b) Trygonidae. In: Barnard, F. A. P. & Guyet, A. (Editors), Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge, Volume 4, S-Appendix. Alvin J. Johnson and Son, New York, p. 958. [ref. 32501]
  • Jordan, D. S. (1923 a) A classification of fishes including families and genera as far as known. Stanford University Publications, University Series, Biological Sciences, 3 (2), x + 77 - 243 pp. [reprinted in 1934 and 1963] [January, ref. 2421]
  • Myers, G. S. & Storey, M. H. (1956) Curatorial practices in zoological research collections 2. System followed in filing specimens of Recent fishes in the natural history museum of Stanford University. Circular Number 6 of the Natural History Museum of Stanford University, i-viii + 1 - 44 [originally compiled in December 1939, emended 1939 - 1956; on the cover of the Circular: " They are not generally available or for sale "; work not published according to ICZN Article 8.1] [October, ref. 32831]
  • Gill, T. N. (1893 b) Families and subfamilies of fishes. Memoirs of the National Academy of Science, 6 (6), 127 - 138. [ref. 26255]