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Pristella maxillaris (Ulrey, 1894)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Characiformes
family
Characidae
genus
Pristella
species
Pristella maxillaris

Name

Synonyms
Aphyocarax maxillaris Ulrey, 1894
Aphyocharax maxillaris Ulrey, 1894
Holopristes riddlei Meek, 1907
Holopristis riddlei Meek, 1907
Pristella riddlei (Meek, 1907)
Homonyms
Pristella maxillaris (Ulrey, 1894)
Common names
Albino pristella in English
Chardonneret d'eau in French
Chardonneret d'eau, Poisson rayon-X in French
Gold Pristella Tetra in English
Intiaaninsulka in Finnish
Maturu in language.
Peixe raio x in Portuguese
Piaba, Lambari, Matupiri in language.
Pikili in language.
Pirania in Polish
Poisson rayon-X in French
Pristella in Dutch
Pristella tetra in English
Pristella-tetra in Danish
Røntgentetra in Danish
Sternflecksalmler in German
Tetra pristella in Spanish
Tetra radiografía in Spanish
Wasserstieglitz in German
Water goldfinch in English
X-ray tetra in English
X-ray tetra in English
prystelka in Polish
tetra průsvitná in Czech
x-ray fish in English
x-ray fish in language.
x-ray fish in English
Звездчатая пристелла in Russian
Пристелла Риддлея in Russian
Прыстэла in Belarusian
細鋸脂鯉 in language.
细锯脂鲤 in language.
X-Ray Tetra in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  2. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  3. 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
  4. Riehl, R., and H. A. Baensch, 1989: null. Aquarium Atlas. 992.
  5. Weitzman, Stanley H., and Lisa Palmer, 1997: A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Teleostei: Characidae) from the Neblina region of Venezuela and Brazil, with comments on the putative 'rosy tetra clade'. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwater, vol. 7, no. 3. 193-202.
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