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Micrometrus

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Labroidei
Familia: Embiotocidae
Genus: Micrometrus
Species: M. aurora - M. minimus

Name

Micrometrus Gibbons, 1854: 1

* Type species: Cymatogaster minimus Gibbons, 1854
* Type by subsequent designation of A. Agassiz, 1861: 129
* Gender: masculine


Synonyms

* Abeona Girard, 1855
* Amphigonopterus Hubbs, 1918


References

* Gibbons, W.P. 1854: Description of four new species of viviparous fish, read before the California Academy of Natural Sciences, Monday evening, May 15, 1854. Daily Placer Times and Transcript, Wednesday, May 18, 1854, page 2, column 3 [newspaper]. [Also published later in 1854 as "Description of four new species of viviparous fishes from Sacramento River, and the Bay of San Francisco" in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 7: 105-106]
* Agassiz, A. 1861: Notes on the described species of Holconoti, found on the western coast of North America. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 8 (1861-1862): 122-134. BHL


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* Nomenclator Zoologicus

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