Astyanax Baird & Girard, 1854

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
GENUS: Published in
Baird, S. F.; Girard, C. F. (1854). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, U. S. A. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 7: 24-29. [First author initials incorrectly as F. S.].

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Chordata: order
Characiformes: family
Characidae: genus
Astyanax

Name

Synonyms: Aequidens Steindachner, 1915; Anoptichthys Hubbs & Innes, 1936; Astianax; Bertoniolus Fowler, 1918; Zygogaster Eigenmann, 1913
Homonyms: Astyanax Stål, 1867; Astyanax Baird & Girard, 1854
Common names: Astynaxes in English; Lambaris típicos in Portuguese; Mojarras in Spanish; Pepesca de Catemaco in Spanish; Sardinitas y pepescas in Spanish; Typical Astyanax in English; astynaxes in English; astynaxes in English; tetra in Czech; Астианаксы in Russian; Мексиканские пещерные рыбы in Russian

Bibliographic References

Baird, S. F.; Girard, C. F. (1854). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, U. S. A. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 7: 24-29. [First author initials incorrectly as F. S.].
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx .
Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx .
Eigenmann, C. H. 1922. The fishes of western South America, Part I. The fresh-water fishes of northwestern South America, including Colombia, Panama, and the Pacific slopes of Ecuador and Peru, together with an appendix upon the fishes of the Rio Meta in Colombia. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 9: 1-346. | Fowler, H. W. 1943. A collection of fresh-water fishes from Colombia, obtained chiefly by Brother Nicéforo Maria. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 95: 223-266. | Lima, F.C.T., Malabarba, L.R., Buckup P.A., Silva, J.F.P., Vari, R.P., Harold, A., Benine, R., Oyakawa, O.T., Pavanelli, C.S., Menezes, N.A., Lucena, C.A.S., Malabarba, M.C.S.L., Lucena, Z.M.S., Reis, R.E., Langeani, F., Casatti, L., Bertaco, V.A., Moreira, C. & Lucinda, P.H.F. 2003. Genera Incertae Sedis in Characidae. pp. 106-169. In: Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris Jr., C.J., Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. EDIPUCRS. Porto Alegre. 729 pp. | Eigenmann, C. H. 1921. The American Characidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 43 (3): 209-310.
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Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: null. Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697.
Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
FishBase
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
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