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Hoplosternum littorale (Hancock, 1828)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Hancock, J. 1828. Notes on some species of fishes and reptiles, from Demerara. Zoological Journal 4: 240-247.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Siluriformes
family
Callichthyidae
genus
Hoplosternum
species
Hoplosternum littorale

Name

Synonyms
Callichthys albidus Valenciennes, 1840
Callichthys chiquitos Castelnau, 1855
Callichthys laevigatus Valenciennes, 1834
Callichthys littoralis Hancock, 1828
Callichthys melampterus Cope, 1872
Callichthys subulatus Valenciennes, 1840
Cascadura maculocephala Ellis, 1913
Cataphractops melampterus (Cope, 1872)
Hoplosternum laevigatum (Valenciennes, 1836)
Hoplosternum littorale daillyi Hoedeman, 1952
Hoplosternum littoralis (Hancock, 1828)
Hoplosternum littoralis daillyi Hoedeman, 1952
Hoplosternum schreineri Miranda Ribeiro, 1911
Hoplosternum shirui Fowler, 1940
Hoplosternum stevardii Gill, 1858
Hoplosternum thoracatum cayennae Hoedeman, 1961
Homonyms
Hoplosternum littorale (Hancock, 1828)
Common names
Atipa in French
Atipa, Brown hoplo, Fork tailed hoplo in English
Atipa-bosko, Bosko in language.
Bata, Katiina kuikui in language.
Brown hoplo in English
Cascudo in French
Cascudo in French
Kaliwalu in language.
Kariwu in language.
Katrina kwikwi in language.
Tamoatá in Portuguese
Tamuatá, Tamboatá in language.
brown hoplo in English
brown hoplo in English
Atipa in French
Brown hoplo in English
Tamoatá in Portuguese

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  3. Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A., R. P. Vari y J. S. Usma. (2008). Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 143-237.
  4. Mojica, J. I., G. Galvis, F. Arbeláez, M. Santos, S. Vejarano, E. Prieto-Piraquive, M. Arce, P. Sánchez-Duarte, C. Castellanos, A. Gutiérrez, S.R. Duque, J. Lobón-Cerviá & C. Granado-Lorencio. 2005. Peces de la cuenca del río Amazonas en Colombia: Región de Leticia. Biota Colombiana 6 (2): 191-210. | Cala, P. 1977. Los peces de la Orinoquía colombiana, Lista preliminar anotada. Lozanía (Acta Zoológica Colombiana) 24: 1-21.
  5. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
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