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Gnathocharax steindachneri Fowler, 1913

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Fowler, H. W. (1913). Fishes from the Madeira River, Brazil. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 65: 517-579.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Characiformes
family
Acestrorhynchidae
genus
Gnathocharax
species
Gnathocharax steindachneri

Name

Homonyms
Gnathocharax steindachneri Fowler, 1913
Common names
Arowana Tetra in English
Falsa payara in Spanish
Mojarita in Spanish
Piaba in Portuguese
Schlußlicht-Drachenflosser in German
Tetra-aruanã in Portuguese
tetra Steindachnerova in Czech
tetra-aruanã in Portuguese
Гнатохаракс Штейндахнера in Russian
Falsa payara in Spanish
Mojarita in Spanish
Piaba in Portuguese
Tetra-aruanã in Portuguese

Bibliographic References

  1. Cala, P. 1977. Los peces de la Orinoquía colombiana, Lista preliminar anotada. Lozanía (Acta Zoológica Colombiana) 24: 1-21. | Bogotá-Gregory, J. D., C. DoNascimiento, F. C. T. Lima, A. Acosta-Santos, F. A. Villa-Navarro, A. Urbano-Bonilla, J. I. Mojica & E. Agudelo Córdoba. 2022. Fishes from the Colombian Amazonia region: species composition from the river systems within the rainforest biome. Biota Neotropica 22 (4): e20221392. https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2022-1392.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  3. Fowler, H. W. (1913). Fishes from the Madeira River, Brazil. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 65: 517-579.
  4. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  5. Galvis, G., Mojica, J., Provenzano, F., Lasso, C., Taphorn, D., Royero, R., Castellanos, C., Gutiérrez, A., Gutiérrez, M., López, Y., Mesa, L., Sánchez, P. y Cipamocha, C. 2007. Peces de la orinoquía colombiana con énfasis en especies de interés ornamental. Incoder 413p.
  6. 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
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