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Pyrrhulina beni Pearson, 1924

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Pearson, N. E. (1924). The fishes of the eastern slope of the Andes. I. The fishes of the Rio Beni basin, Bolivia, collected by the Mulford expedition. <em>Indiana University Studies.</em> v. 11 (no. 64): 1-83, Pls. 1-12.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Characiformes
family
Lebiasinidae
genus
Pyrrhulina
species
Pyrrhulina beni

Name

Homonyms
Pyrrhulina beni Pearson, 1924
Common names
Beni Pencilfish in English
Beni Splash Tetra in English
Pencilfish in English
Pirrulina in Portuguese
Pirrulina do beni in Portuguese
Urquisho in Spanish
Urquisho in Spanish
štíhlotělka Benova in Czech
Urquisho in Spanish

Bibliographic References

  1. 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. 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. Pearson, N. E. (1924). The fishes of the eastern slope of the Andes. I. The fishes of the Rio Beni basin, Bolivia, collected by the Mulford expedition. <em>Indiana University Studies.</em> v. 11 (no. 64): 1-83, Pls. 1-12.
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