Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Characiformes
Familia: Ctenoluciidae
Genus: Boulengerella
Species: B. cuvieri – B. lateristriga – B. lucius – B. maculata – B. xyrekes
Name
Boulengerella Eigenmann, 1903: 147
Type species: Xiphostoma lateristriga Boulenger, 1895
Type by original designation [also monotypic]
Gender: feminine
References
Eigenmann, C.H. 1903: New genera of South American fresh-water fishes, and new names for old genera. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 45: 144–148.
Vari, R. P. 1995: The neotropical fish family Ctenoluciidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes): supra and intrafamilial phylogenetic relationships, with a revisionary study. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 564: iv + 97 pp. PDF
Links
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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Boulengerella is a genus of pike-characins from tropical South America, found in the Amazon Basin, Orinoco, and rivers of the Guiana Shield. Boulengerella was named after the Belgian ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger.[1] The currently described species are:
Boulengerella cuvieri (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (bicuda)
Boulengerella lateristriga (Boulenger, 1895) (striped pike-characin)
Boulengerella lucius (G. Cuvier, 1816) (golden pike-characin)
Boulengerella maculata (Valenciennes, 1850) (spotted pike-characin)
Boulengerella xyrekes Vari, 1995
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Boulengerella". FishBase. October 2011 version.
Taphorn, Donald Charles (1990). Characiform fishes of the Apure River drainage, Venezuela. p. 673.
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