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Nannostomus beckfordi Günther, 1872

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Günther, A. (1872). On a new genus of characinoid fishes from Demerara. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872.</em> (pt 1) (art. 5): 146.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Characiformes
family
Lebiasinidae
genus
Nannostomus
species
Nannostomus beckfordi

Name

Synonyms
Nannostomus anomalus Steindachner, 1876
Nannostomus aripiragensis Meinken, 1931
Nannostomus aripirangensis Meinken, 1931
Nannostomus beckfordi anomalus Steindachner, 1876
Nannostomus beckfordi aripirangensis Meinken, 1931
Nannostomus beckfordi beckfordi
Nannostomus beckfordi surinami Hoedeman, 1954
Nannostomus simplex Eigenmann, 1909
Homonyms
Nannostomus beckfordi Günther, 1872
Common names
Beckford Pencilfish in English
Beckford's pencilfish in English
Brown Pencilfish in English
Drobnoustek Beckforda in Polish
Golden pencilfish in English
Golden pencilfish in English
Guldbandstetra in Swedish
Gylden prydkarpelaks in Danish
Längsbandziersalmler in German
Peixe-lápis in Portuguese
Peixe-lápis dourado in Portuguese
Poisson crayon in French
Poisson-crayon in French
Poisson-crayon in French
Ti-yaya in language.
Torpedinho-doudado in Portuguese
Torpedinho-dourado in language.
Torpedinho-dourado in Portuguese
drobnoústka pruhovaná in Czech
golden pencilfish in English
golden pencilfish in English
golden pencilfish in language.
Нанностом Бекфорда in Russian
Golden Pencilfish in English
Brown Pencilfish in English
Peixe-lápis in Portuguese
Torpedinho-dourado in Portuguese

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. Günther, A. (1872). On a new genus of characinoid fishes from Demerara. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872.</em> (pt 1) (art. 5): 146.
  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. Riehl, R., and H. A. Baensch, 1989: null. Aquarium Atlas. 992.
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