IRMNG - Alfaro Meek, 1912

IRMNG taxon details

Alfaro Meek, 1912

IRMNG_ID

1037672 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1037672)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Poeciliidae Bonaparte, 1831

Synonymised names

Furcipenis Hubbs, 1931 · unaccepted

Petalosoma Regan, 1908 · unaccepted

Petalurichthys Regan, 1912 · unaccepted

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Species Alfaro cultratus (Regan, 1908)
Species Alfaro huberi (Fowler, 1923)
Species Alfaro acutiventralis Meek, 1912 accepted as Alfaro cultratus (Regan, 1908)
Species Alfaro amazonum (Regan, 1911) accepted as Alfaro cultratus (Regan, 1908)
Species Alfaro hubberi (Fowler, 1923) accepted as Alfaro huberi (Fowler, 1923)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Field Mus. Pub., Zool. Ser., 10
page(s): 72 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Alfaro Meek, 1912. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1037672 on 2024-07-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2016-11-22 11:10:04Z

changed

db_admin

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original description Field Mus. Pub., Zool. Ser., 10
page(s): 72 [details]

basis of record SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

verified source for family Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version. , available online at https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version. , available online at https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

extant flag source SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998 [details]

habitat flag source FishBase [details]

original description (of Petalurichthys Regan, 1912) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) 10
page(s): 494 [details]

original description (of Furcipenis Hubbs, 1931) Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., No. 230
page(s): 1 [details]

original description (of Petalosoma Regan, 1908) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) 2
page(s): 458 [details]

From other sources

Descriptive info From FishBase: Freshwater. FishBase flag: All Freshwater. [details]

Subfamily Poeciliinae [details]

Type species as cited Alfaro acutiventralis Meek 1912 [details]

To BioNames database
To BioNames database (from synonym Furcipenis Hubbs, 1931)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Furcipenis Hubbs, 1931)
To ION (Index to Organism Names)
To WoRMS