Adontosternarchus
Adontosternarchus clarkae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gymnotiformes
Family: Apteronotidae
Genus: Adontosternarchus
M. M. Ellis in C. H. Eigenmann, 1912

Adontosternarchus is a genus of ghost knifefishes found in Amazon and Orinoco river basins in tropical South America. They have blunt snouts, a dark-spotted or -mottled pattern on a pale background (however, spotting/mottling can be so dense that individuals appear almost all dark) and reach up to 18.5–32.2 cm (7.3–12.7 in) in total length.[1][2][3] They feed on zooplankton and can be found quite deep, with A. devenanzii recorded down to 84 m (276 ft).[1]

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[2][3]

  • Adontosternarchus balaenops (Cope, 1878)
  • Adontosternarchus clarkae Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985
  • Adontosternarchus devenanzii Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985
  • Adontosternarchus duartei de Santana & Vari, 2012[3]
  • Adontosternarchus nebulosus Lundberg & Cox Fernandes, 2007
  • Adontosternarchus sachsi (W. K. H. Peters, 1877)

References

  1. 1 2 van der Sleen, P.; J.S. Albert, eds. (2017). Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas. Princeton University Press. p. 325. ISBN 978-0691170749.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Adontosternarchus in FishBase. August 2017 version.
  3. 1 2 3 de Santana, C.D. & Vari, R.P. (2012): New Species of Adontosternarchus (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) from the Rio Purus Basin, Brazil. Copeia, 2012 (3): 535-540.


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