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Hyphessobrycon eques (Steindachner, 1882)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Characiformes
family
Characidae
genus
Hyphessobrycon
species
Hyphessobrycon eques

Name

Synonyms
Cheirodon eques Steindachner, 1882
Chirodon eques Steindachner, 1882
Hemigrammus melasopterus Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1903
Hemigrammus serpae (Durbin, 1908)
Hyphessobrycon callistus (Boulenger, 1900)
Hyphessobrycon serpae Durbin, 1908
Megalamphodus eques (Steindachner, 1882)
Tetragonopterus callistus Boulenger, 1900
Homonyms
Hyphessobrycon eques (Steindachner, 1882)
Common names
Jewel tetra, Serpae tetra in English
Mato grosso in language.
Tétra-joyau, Tétra-serpae in French
Tetra mato grosso in Portuguese
Serpa 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. Galvis, G., Sánchez-Duarte, P., Mesa-Salazar, L., López-Pinto, Y., Gutiérrez-E, M., Gutiérrez-Cortéz, Á., Castaño, M., Castellanos, C. 2007. Peces de la Amazonía colombiana con énfasis en especies de interés ornamental. Incoder, 489p.
  4. 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
  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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